Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington, R. Horsfield, B. White, T. Longman [and 11 others in London], 1785 |
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. in Four Books. to Which Is Added Samson Agonistes ... JOHN. MILTON Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
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Alluding alſo ancient Angels anſwer becauſe beſt call'd Calton Cant Caphtor cauſe Chorus Chriſt Cicero Dagon defert defire deſcription divine elſe eſt expreſſed Faery Queen faid falſe fame father fent firſt firſt edition fome foon Fortin fuch glory hath Heav'n houſe Ifrael inſtances Jeſus juſt king laſt leaſt leſs Lord MANOAH Milton moſt muſt obſerved occafion oracles Paradife Loft PARADISE REGAIN'D Parthian paſſage perſon pleaſing poem poet pow'r praiſe preſent propoſed purpoſe quæ raiſe reaſon reply'd repreſented reſt ſaid ſame SAMSON Satan Saviour ſays ſcarce ſcene ſecond ſee ſeek ſeems ſenſe ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhalt ſhe ſhort ſhould ſhow ſome ſon Son of God ſpeaking ſpeech Spirit ſtands ſtate ſtill ſtory Strabo ſtrength ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe taſte Tempter thee theſe things thoſe thought Thyer tion Urim and Thummim uſe verſe virtue Warburton whoſe words δε εν
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Seite 104 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors...
Seite 316 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Seite 287 - Hardy and industrious to support Tyrannic power, but raging to pursue The righteous, and all such as honour truth ; He all their ammunition And feats of war defeats, With plain heroic magnitude of mind...
Seite 311 - As with the force of winds and waters pent When mountains tremble, those two massy pillars With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Seite 40 - God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will, And sends his spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.
Seite 160 - Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits...
Seite 16 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Seite 194 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Seite 225 - Interminable, And tie him to his own prescript, Who made our laws to bind us, not himself, And hath full right...
Seite 239 - Fearless of danger, like a petty God I walk'd about admir'd of all and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront.