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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... Italy , he fays , that it was a mere calumny ; on the con- trary he was difliked by the Italians , for the feverity of his manners , and for the freedom of his dif courfes against popery . And in others of his letters to Voffius and to ...
... Italy , he fays , that it was a mere calumny ; on the con- trary he was difliked by the Italians , for the feverity of his manners , and for the freedom of his dif courfes against popery . And in others of his letters to Voffius and to ...
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... Italian tragedy ; and it is certain , that he first de- figned it a tragedy himself , and there are feveral plans of it in the form of a tragedy still to be seen in the author's own manufcript preferved in the library of Trinity College ...
... Italian tragedy ; and it is certain , that he first de- figned it a tragedy himself , and there are feveral plans of it in the form of a tragedy still to be seen in the author's own manufcript preferved in the library of Trinity College ...
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... Italian , French , and Dutch ; and propofals have been made for tranflating it into Greek . The Dutch tranflation is ... Italian mafter here in England , made an Ita- lian tranflation ; and Mr. Richardson the fon faw another at Florence ...
... Italian , French , and Dutch ; and propofals have been made for tranflating it into Greek . The Dutch tranflation is ... Italian mafter here in England , made an Ita- lian tranflation ; and Mr. Richardson the fon faw another at Florence ...
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... Italian , French , and Spanish . He was particularly fkilled in the Italian , which he always preferred to the French language , as all the men of letters did at that time in England ; and he not only wrote ele- gantly in it , but is ...
... Italian , French , and Spanish . He was particularly fkilled in the Italian , which he always preferred to the French language , as all the men of letters did at that time in England ; and he not only wrote ele- gantly in it , but is ...
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... Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works , as have alfo long fince our best English tragedies , as a thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical delight ...
... Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rime both in longer and shorter works , as have alfo long fince our best English tragedies , as a thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial and of no true mufical delight ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Addifon Æneid againſt alfo Angels battel beauty becauſe befides Bentley call'd Cant darkneſs defcribed defcription earth expreffion exprefs faid Fairy Queen fame fays fecond feems fenfe fent fentiments feven feveral fhall fhort fhould fhow fide fight fignifies fince fire firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpeaking fpeech ftill fubject fublime fuch fuppofe fyllable hath Heaven Hell himſelf hoft Homer houſe Hume Iliad inftances itſelf juft king laft Latin lefs likewife meaſure Milton moft Moloch moſt muft muſt night obferves occafion Ovid paffage Paradife Loft Pearce perfon poem poet pow'r prefent profe publiſhed racter reader reafon reft reprefented Richardfon rifing Satan ſhall ſpeak Spenfer Spirits ſtood Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought throne Thyer tion tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virg Virgil whofe whoſe word worfe
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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.