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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE
AND POETICAL WORKS OF
JOHN MILTON
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John Milton
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  AN INTRODUCTION

TO THE

  PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON
Comprising all the Autobiographic Passages in his Works, the more Explicit
Presentations of his Ideas of True Liberty
COMUS, LYCIDAS, and SAMSON AGONISTES
With Notes and Forewords
BY
HIRAM CORSON, LL.D.
Professor of English Literature in the Cornell University
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1899
All rights reserved
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Copyright, 1899,
  By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press
  J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
  Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
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'Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintained
Against revolted multitudes the cause
Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms,
And for the testimony of truth hast borne
Universal reproach, far worse to bear
Than violence; for this was all thy care—
To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds
Judged thee perverse.'
—Paradise Lost, VI. 29-37.
'O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,
O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,
God-gifted organ-voice of England,
Milton, a name to resound for ages;
Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
Starred from Jehovah's gorgeous armories,
Tower as the deep-domed empyrean
Rings to the roar of an angel                        
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