The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton - John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost. |
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... bright To hit the sense of human sight , And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black , staid wisdom's hue ... bright ] Hor . Od . i . xix . 5 . • Nimium lubricus spici . 19 Ethiop ] · Noctem Æthiopissam . ' Miltoni Prolus . p ...
... bright To hit the sense of human sight , And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black , staid wisdom's hue ... bright ] Hor . Od . i . xix . 5 . • Nimium lubricus spici . 19 Ethiop ] · Noctem Æthiopissam . ' Miltoni Prolus . p ...
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... bright , In the centre of her light . 20 Might she the wise Latona be , Or the tower'd Cybele , Mother of a hundred Gods ? Juno dares not give her odds ; Who had thought this clime had held A deity so unparallel'd ? 25 As they come ...
... bright , In the centre of her light . 20 Might she the wise Latona be , Or the tower'd Cybele , Mother of a hundred Gods ? Juno dares not give her odds ; Who had thought this clime had held A deity so unparallel'd ? 25 As they come ...
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... bright hast set In the pure firmament , then saith my heart , O what is man that thou remember'st yet , , And think'st upon him ; or of man begot , That him thou visit'st , and of him art found ? Scarce to be less than Gods , thou mad ...
... bright hast set In the pure firmament , then saith my heart , O what is man that thou remember'st yet , , And think'st upon him ; or of man begot , That him thou visit'st , and of him art found ? Scarce to be less than Gods , thou mad ...
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