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... in this life , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die . " He has a mission to fulfil , a purpose to xii INTRODUCTION .
... in this life , joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to after times , as they should not willingly let it die . " He has a mission to fulfil , a purpose to xii INTRODUCTION .
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... nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Between 1649 and 1660 Milton produced no less than eleven pamphlets . Several of these arose out of the pub- Milton's writ- lication of the famous Eikon Basilike . The book was printed in ...
... nature , and eventually cost him his eyesight . Between 1649 and 1660 Milton produced no less than eleven pamphlets . Several of these arose out of the pub- Milton's writ- lication of the famous Eikon Basilike . The book was printed in ...
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... nature , insight into the problems of men's motives and emotions , grasp of the broader issues of the human tragedy , all these were essential to the author of an epic poem ; they could only be obtained through commerce with the world ...
... nature , insight into the problems of men's motives and emotions , grasp of the broader issues of the human tragedy , all these were essential to the author of an epic poem ; they could only be obtained through commerce with the world ...
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... nature is subdu'd To what it works in , like the dyer's hand . Milton's genius was subdued in this way . If we compare him , the Milton of the great epics and of Samson Agonistes , with Homer or Shakespeare - and none but the greatest ...
... nature is subdu'd To what it works in , like the dyer's hand . Milton's genius was subdued in this way . If we compare him , the Milton of the great epics and of Samson Agonistes , with Homer or Shakespeare - and none but the greatest ...
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... nature and country sights and sounds , so that it is hard to resist the impression that many touches in each were sug- gested by the quiet woodland scenery of Horton . It will be well therefore and safe to accept with Professor Masson ...
... nature and country sights and sounds , so that it is hard to resist the impression that many touches in each were sug- gested by the quiet woodland scenery of Horton . It will be well therefore and safe to accept with Professor Masson ...
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Milton's Arcades and Comus: With Introd., Notes and Indexes John Milton Affichage du livre entier - 1891 |
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Adonis Æneid allusion Anti-masque Arcades Ben Jonson blank verse Brachet Bridgewater brother Cambridge charm Circe classical comedy Comus Cotgrave Countess Court dance derived Dict Dictionary dramatic Du Cange Earl Echo edition Egerton Elizabethan English entertainment epithet etymology Faerie Queene father Fletcher French Giles Fletcher goddess hath Heaven Hence honour Inigo Jones Italian Italy Jonson Jonson's Masque king Lady Latin latter Lawes Lear Lord Low Lat Low Latin Lycidas lyric Masque of Blackness Masque of Queens Masque-writers Masson Mayhew and Skeat meaning metaphor Midsummer N. D. Milton modern musician Nativity Ode nature night noble nymphs Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral performance perhaps phrase piece poem poet poetry present quæ quotes reference Romeo and Juliet Sabrina says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender Shepherd song Sonnet speaks spelling Spenser sphere spirits Tempest thee thou verb Vergil whence word writes
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Page 98 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 112 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 134 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 5 - I was all ear, !(« And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of Death.
Page viii - I was confirmed in this opinion that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 13 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute. She, guiltless damsel, flying the mad pursuit Of her enraged stepdame Guendolen, Commended her fair innocence to the flood That stayed her flight with his cross-flowing course. The water-nymphs, that in the bottom played, Held up their pearled wrists, and took her in, Bearing her straight...
Page 77 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page lxx - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page lxxiii - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
Page 165 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...