Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volumen1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges [and seven others in London], 1750 |
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... tion of his benefactor . I am obliged too to Mr. Jortin for fome remarks , which he conveyed to me by the hands of Dr. Pearce . They are chiefly upon Milton's imitations of the Ancients ; but every thing that pro- ceeds from him is of ...
... tion of his benefactor . I am obliged too to Mr. Jortin for fome remarks , which he conveyed to me by the hands of Dr. Pearce . They are chiefly upon Milton's imitations of the Ancients ; but every thing that pro- ceeds from him is of ...
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... tion : but I hope the Speaker of the House of Com- mons will pardon my ambition to have it known , that he has been pleased to fuggeft fome useful hints and obfervations , when I have been admitted to the honor of his converfation . And ...
... tion : but I hope the Speaker of the House of Com- mons will pardon my ambition to have it known , that he has been pleased to fuggeft fome useful hints and obfervations , when I have been admitted to the honor of his converfation . And ...
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... tion , that will be fufficient . I can hardly expect that any body should them all , and I may approve be certain that no body can condemn them all . The life of the author it is almoft become a custom to prefix to a new edition of his ...
... tion , that will be fufficient . I can hardly expect that any body should them all , and I may approve be certain that no body can condemn them all . The life of the author it is almoft become a custom to prefix to a new edition of his ...
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... tion , Carlo Dati wrote a Latin eulogium of him , and correfponded with him after his return to Eng- land . Bonmatthei was at that time about publishing an Italian grammar ; and the eighth of our author's familiar epiftles , dated at ...
... tion , Carlo Dati wrote a Latin eulogium of him , and correfponded with him after his return to Eng- land . Bonmatthei was at that time about publishing an Italian grammar ; and the eighth of our author's familiar epiftles , dated at ...
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... tion of children , Xenophon's Cyropædia and Ana- bafis , Ælian's Tactics , and the Stratagems of Po- lyænus . Nor did this application to the Greek and Latin tongues hinder the attaining to the chief oriental languages , the Hebrew ...
... tion of children , Xenophon's Cyropædia and Ana- bafis , Ælian's Tactics , and the Stratagems of Po- lyænus . Nor did this application to the Greek and Latin tongues hinder the attaining to the chief oriental languages , the Hebrew ...
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Página 26 - Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Página 242 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 3 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos : or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Página 474 - And full of wrath bent on his enemies. At once the four spread out their starry wings, With dreadful shade contiguous, and the orbs Of his fierce chariot roll'd, as with the sound Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host. He on his impious foes right onward drove, Gloomy as night ; under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.
Página 257 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 176 - Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 180 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 338 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 153 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.