SONNET, BY MILTON,

ON HIS ATTAINING THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE.

(See page 210.)

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the will of Reaber

Facsimiled from the Original in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,

by the Electro-block Printing Process.

THE

POETICAL WORKS

122809

JOHN MILTON

WITH A MEMOIR AND CRITICAL REMARKS ON HIS GENIUS

AND WRITINGS

BY JAMES MONTGOMERY

AND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN THOMPSON,

8. AND T. WILLIAMS, O. SMITH, J. LINTON, ETC.

FROM DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM HARVEY.

NEW EDITION.

WITH AN INDEX TO PARADISE LOST;

TODD'S VERBAL INDEX TO ALL THE POEMS;

AND A VARIORUM SELECTION OF EXPLANATORY NOTES

BY HENRY G. BOHN.

IN TWO VOLS. VOL. II.

PARADISE REGAINED

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

1890.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PARADISE REGAINED,

SAMSON AGONISTES,

COMUS, ARCADES, AND OTHER POEMS.

BY

JOHN MILTON.

WITH A MEMOIR,

AND CRITICAL REMARKS ON HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS,

BY JAMES MONTGOMERY;

EMBELLISHED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS BY JOHN THOMPSON,

8. AND T. WILLIAMS, ORRIN SMITH, J. LINTON, ETC.

FROM DRAWINGS BY WILLIAM HARVEY.

NEW EDITION.

TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN INDEX VERBORUM TO THE WHOLE

OF MILTON'S POEMS.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET

COVENT GARDEN.

1890.