This is part of an investigation I've been doing into the use and spelling of -ize suffix verbs and their spelling (-ize or -ise) in British English. For more details, related posts and the methods I've used, see the -ize / -ise page.
John Milton - Paradise Lost 1667
- Paradise Lost at Wikipedia
- Paradise Lost at Project Gutenberg
- Paradise Lost at Google Books - London 1733
- Archive.org - facsimiles in various formats
- Facsimile of the First Edition - PDF at Archive.org - large file (20.8 MB) takes a bit of time to load
Problems
As an example of the problems of dealing with digitised texts, Google Books comes up with all eight of the instances of advise, but searching the PDF format of the the facsimile at Archive.org brings up none. I thought this might be due to the practice of using of an f-like letter to represent s in early publishing, and sure enough searching for advife and surprife in the PDF is more successful.
What I have learned is that with digitised books, there seem to be two digital versions: the (photographic?) one we see, and a background plain text version, and it seems to depend on how this latter has been treated as to how successful searching is.
Some of the introductions to the Books seem to be missing from the Project Gutenberg version. The earliest edition I could find at Google Books was from 1733. Clicking on the links will bring up the relevant pages in the London 1733 edition at Google Books. I confess I haven't checked very much with the facsimile version, which seeme to have some serious search problems.
Suffix -ize verbs - 5 instances of 4 verbs
| 1733 | |||
| -ise | -ize | baptizing | (1) | 1 | eternize | (2) | 2 | evangelize | (1) | 1 | tyrannize | (1) | 1 |
French -ise verbs - 18 instances of 6 verbs
| 1733 | |||
| -ise | -ize | advise | (8) | 8 | advising | (1) | 1 | devising | (1) | 1 | exercise | (4) | 4 | surmise | (1) | 1 | surprise | (3) | 2 | 1 |
Showing all instances of -ize and -ise as shown in Project Gutenberg
| 1733 | |
| debate; who can advise, may speak. | -ise |
| fire Must exercise us without hope | -ise |
| have what I advise. | -ise |
| Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: for such | -ise |
| Faded so soon. Advise if this be | -ise |
| regaind, but sat devising Death To | -ise |
| As may advise him of his | -ise |
| Let us advise, and to this | -ise |
| Well thou didst advise, Yet not | -ise |
| dev'lish machination might devise Like instrument | -ise |
| likes them, to despise God and | -ise |
| least sin Surprise thee, and her | -ise |
| detaine thee I devise, Inviting thee | -ise |
| Thou therefore now advise Or hear | -ise |
| without thee can despise. For bliss, | -ise |
| in bad plight, devise What best | -ise |
| Earth Dominion exercise and in the | -ise |
| How can he exercise Wrath without | -ise |
| Serpent: On me exercise not Thy | -ise |
| serv'd but to eternize woe; Till | -ize |
| King, who to surprize One man, | -ize |
| No despicable gift; surmise not then | -ise |
| under him to tyrannize, Marching from | -ize |
| shall beleeve Baptizing in the profluent | -ize |
| thine; there shall surprise The Serpent, | -ise |
| sends To evangelize the Nations, then | -ize |
| sleep, and Dreams advise, Which he | -ise |
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