...MiltonD.Appleton, 1892 - 167 σελίδες |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Adam and Eve Adam's Æneid Allegro Andrew Marvell angels answer Areopagitica beauty beginning blank verse Cambridge character Christ Church close Commonwealth Comus controversy Creation Cromwell Cromwell's death defend Defensio Secunda delight drama earth edition England English epic Eve's evil eyes fall father feel fills follows God's Greek Heaven Hell honour imagination intellect interest J. P. MAHAFFY King Latin letter liberty lines literary literature Long Parliament Lycidas Marchamont Needham midst Milton Milton marks mind Morus nature noble pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage passion peace Penseroso picture pity pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political praise pride prose Protectorate Puritanism reason rhymes Samson Agonistes Satan says scorn Shakspere Smectymnuus solemn song sonnet soul speech spirit story strange temper temptation thee things thou thought touch whole woman writing written wrote wrought youth
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 35 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Σελίδα 149 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Σελίδα 35 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame 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...
Σελίδα 145 - 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 ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless King...
Σελίδα 166 - 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.
Σελίδα 13 - Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, — I mean that which is truly so, — whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion, which a certain sorceress, the abuser of love's name, carries about...
Σελίδα 149 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Σελίδα 5 - Yea, our blind Poet, who, in his later day, Stood almost single; uttering odious truth — Darkness before, and danger's voice behind, Soul awful — if the earth has ever lodged An awful soul — I seemed to see him here...
Σελίδα 146 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Σελίδα 112 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...