Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IILeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1896 - 201 pages |
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... over into Sicily and Greece , the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad , while my fellow - citizens were ...
... over into Sicily and Greece , the melancholy intelligence which I received of the civil commotions in England made me alter my purpose ; for I thought it base to be traveling for amusement abroad , while my fellow - citizens were ...
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Popular passages
Page 70 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 38 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 62 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 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.
Page 57 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 105 - And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 87 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 63 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 136 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II Volume 2 of The students' series of English classics The studies in mathematical thinking and learning series |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | Albert Stanburrough Cook |
| Publisher | Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1896 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 201 pages |
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