majesty of the rythm & sense. but nothing less than this can authorize such a license. take the following proof from the same
author.
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Again, god said, Let there be firmament amid the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters; and god made the firmament.
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. and god
made the firmament.
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I have here placed Moses & Milton side by side, that he who can may distinguish which version belongs to the poet. to do this
he will not have the aid either of the sentiment, diction or measure of poetry. the original is so servilely copied that tho
it be cut indeed into peices of ten syllables, no pause is marked between these portions . . .
Milton. 7. 261.
Genesis. 1. 6.
This passage is quoted as Jefferson apparently originally wrote it. The numerous emendations and crossings out make his final intentions difficult of appraisal.
John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet. For the first edition of
Paradise Lost, see no. 4289, below.
Thomas Newton, 1704-1782, Bishop of Bristol, first published an edition of
Paradise Lost, with a life and notes, in 1749, and his text was used by the brothers Foulis in this edition of 1770.
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Milton’s Paradise regained. & other poems.
Baskerville
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 32, as above.
MILTON,
John.
Paradise Regain’d. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions. The author
John Milton, from the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D.
Birmingham: Printed by
John Baskerville, for
J. and R. Tonson in
London,
m dcc lix
. [1759.]
PR3560 1759
4to. 196 leaves, half-titles for the separate parts, continuous signatures and pagination.
Baskerville Club Handlist, no. 19.
H. R. Tedder (in the D.N.B. I, 1286), no. 6.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
6/6.
John Baskerville, 1706-1775, printer of Birmingham, England. This is his
second edition of
Paradise Regain’d, and is not a reissue of the first, printed in 1758, but a completely new setting of type.
Bishop Newton’s first edition of
Paradise Regain’d was issued in 1752.
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Milton’s Paradise lost & regained.
Baskerville.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 136, no. 20, as above.
MILTON,
John.
Paradise lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books. The author John Milton. [-Paradise Regain’d. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions. The author
John Milton] From the text of Thomas Newton D.D.
Birmingham: Printed by
John Baskerville for
J. and R. Tonson in
London,
mdcclviii
. [1758.]
PR3560 1758
2 vol. 8vo. 260 and 194 leaves, list of subscribers on 9 leaves at the beginning of Paradise lost, followed by complimentary
poems by Samuel Barrow and Andrew Marvel and Newton’s Life of Milton.
Baskerville Club Handlist, no. 14 and 15.
Only the quarto edition of this year cited by Tedder,
op. cit.
Earlier in the same year Baskerville had published the same works in quarto with plates.
The subscribers whose names are of interest in this Catalogue include Sir Francis Dashwood, Bart., Benjamin Franklin Esq.
Philadelphia, Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R.S., Hon. Horatio Walpole, M.P. and others.
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