The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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... Muse a vain thing , the kings of the earth upstand With power , and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together through each land Against the Lord and his Messiah dear ? " Let us break off , " say they , " by strength ...
... Muse a vain thing , the kings of the earth upstand With power , and princes in their congregations Lay deep their plots together through each land Against the Lord and his Messiah dear ? " Let us break off , " say they , " by strength ...
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... Muse , " & c . There is a characteristic peculiarity in this " Invocation , " with which Milton , following so far the established custom of great poets , has opened his epic . It is expressly the HEBREW Muse that he invokes- the Muse ...
... Muse , " & c . There is a characteristic peculiarity in this " Invocation , " with which Milton , following so far the established custom of great poets , has opened his epic . It is expressly the HEBREW Muse that he invokes- the Muse ...
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... Muse amerced him of his eyes , but gave him the faculty of singing sweetly . " There may be more than odd coincidence in this : there may be radical far - back identity . The Greek apeípw , of which aμepore is a part , means literally ...
... Muse amerced him of his eyes , but gave him the faculty of singing sweetly . " There may be more than odd coincidence in this : there may be radical far - back identity . The Greek apeípw , of which aμepore is a part , means literally ...
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... Muse , " & c . See Book I. 6 , et seq . 25 , 26. " drop serene . . . or dim suffusion . " Two phrases from the medical science of Milton's day , when diseases of the eye , as well as other diseases , were supposed to arise from ...
... Muse , " & c . See Book I. 6 , et seq . 25 , 26. " drop serene . . . or dim suffusion . " Two phrases from the medical science of Milton's day , when diseases of the eye , as well as other diseases , were supposed to arise from ...
Page 153
... Muses to a trial of skill , and was struck blind by them for his presumption : he is mentioned several times in Homer . Tiresias , the blind prophet of Thebes , was a great character in the legends of the Greeks , and figures as the ...
... Muses to a trial of skill , and was struck blind by them for his presumption : he is mentioned several times in Homer . Tiresias , the blind prophet of Thebes , was a great character in the legends of the Greeks , and figures as the ...
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