The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1869-11-13
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b.i.ah e. rtIffa greet work fhai
ts reaifv "waad 80 et.l.nrIy
ifd'., a6l hs iontGra lbourht.
lnfihg tba ihmh.1atilmr ed ll
i,il war. tat bls andIy cherished
hopes esra bahisd ltai hc had boz.
Decd been loru an asa iop soon
fhnt be had a..en upon e,il dsy.
ind evil Tongues luf when teace
smiled again apon bic native land
he turned Die attention ~ the scloc.
lion uf d subject Before ho deter.
mined HPon BIZ long philosopbicul
poem, be aWcam 60 have ranged
through history in quest of q topic
Of sufficient interest and capabiiiy
and 10 have dwelt ior a time fondly
on King Arthur. AZ last ho reach.
cd q point beyond which ii was i'm.
possible TO 60. Millions choice was
made, and Paradise Lost" grew
slowly into being.
The exact date when MiIton-ol
whom the Bishop of Ayranches
wrote to Salmasins, who had done
him the honor of abusing him,
How can you occupy yourself with
an object SO insignificant as this
Milton l'-began his great Chris
tian poem is not known; but we do
know that for many years, mostly
under his own roof in Artillery
Walk, or while sauutering through
the streets of London, when Char
les Stuart was amusing himself
with hls licentious court; when
John Dryden was witnessing his
own plays performed at the Globe
Theater; when poor Sam Butler
was growing morose from neglect
and i'll treatment; when the lively
and garrulous Samuel Pepys was
running about embalming notes for
posterity; and when the Puritan
poets friend, Andrew Marvel was
interesting himself in his behalf
the plan was carried and resolved in
the blind mans brain, till at length
he was able to exclaim:
"Give me my Tyre,
feel the strings Of gift divine;
Within my bosom glows unearthly fire;
Lit by no skill Of minel'
By dlctation of fifty to u hun
dred lines at a time, the work was
at last completed. We have nj
accurate information as to the ex
act date when Paradise Lost wa
finished but it was sometime pre-
vious to the 9th of April, 1861
the day on which it was sold t,
Samuel Simmons, bookseller, TO
five pounds down, with a premium
Of five pounds more when 1880
copies OF the first edition were sold
and five pounds when 1900 of tn,
second should have been sold, ant
SO on for successive editions, eacl
edition to consist of 1900 copies
As originally published, the poem
consisted Of ten books, and was sol,
at three shillings. The stipulate,
1900 copies were disposed of befor
the Goth of April, 1869, on whic1
Milton signed a receipt for Oh
second five pounds, which we hav
seen hanging in neat frame On tn
walls Of the famous breakfast roor
of Samuel Rogers. The remainin
260 do not seem to have sold SO fas
as it was not until the year of Mi
, tons death that a second edition wa
, published. In the second editio
, the ten books are converted int
twelve by a diversion OF the sevent
! and tenth, and there was also SON
, few alterations. A third editio
: appears in 1878, and in Decembe
!, 1890, Mrs. Milton parted with h,
) interest in Paradise Lost for eigl
5 pounds, paid to her by Simmon
r so that the total amount received /
i the poet and his family for th
2 matchless work was e27, or $40.
5 less than Alfred Tennyson was I
c Gently paid by the publishers Of
J, popular English periodical for wri
0 ing a dozen lines.
n Mr.. Malone, an old citizen
a Marshall county, Mississippi, W
3 found dead in the road, near HoI
\ Springs, a few days ago. tits