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For this Reason I shall wave the Discusion of that point which was started some
Years fince , whether Milton ' s Paradise Lost may be called an Heroick Poem ?
Thofe who will not give it that Title , may call it ( if they please ) a Divine Poem .
For this Reason I shall wave the Discusion of that point which was started some
Years fince , whether Milton ' s Paradise Lost may be called an Heroick Poem ?
Thofe who will not give it that Title , may call it ( if they please ) a Divine Poem .
Página 67
Milton , in imitation of these two great Poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an
Infernal Council plotting the Fall of Man , which is the Action he proposed to
célebrate ; and as for those great A & tions , which preceded , in Point of Time ,
the Battle ...
Milton , in imitation of these two great Poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an
Infernal Council plotting the Fall of Man , which is the Action he proposed to
célebrate ; and as for those great A & tions , which preceded , in Point of Time ,
the Battle ...
Página 88
IF we look into the Characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all
the Variety his Fable was capable of receiving . The whole Species of Mankind
was in two Persons at the Time to which the Subject of his Poem is confined .
IF we look into the Characters of Milton , we shall find that he has introduced all
the Variety his Fable was capable of receiving . The whole Species of Mankind
was in two Persons at the Time to which the Subject of his Poem is confined .
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I do not remember that Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned ,
which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft
, has sometimes erred in this respect , as I shall shew more at large in another .
I do not remember that Homer any where falls into the Faults above - mentioned ,
which were indeed the false Refinements of later Ages . Milton , it must be confeft
, has sometimes erred in this respect , as I shall shew more at large in another .
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I have been the more particular in these Observations on Milton ' s Style ,
because it is that Part of him in which he appears the most singular . The
Remarks I have here made upon the Practice of other Poets , with my
Observations out of ...
I have been the more particular in these Observations on Milton ' s Style ,
because it is that Part of him in which he appears the most singular . The
Remarks I have here made upon the Practice of other Poets , with my
Observations out of ...
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Página 67 - Roman empire, has described the birth of its great rival, the Carthaginian commonwealth : Milton, with the like art in his poem on the fall of man, has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies.
Página 70 - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Página 134 - The great masters in composition know very well that many an elegant phrase becomes improper for a poet or an orator, when it has been debased by common use. For this reason the works of ancient authors, which are written in dead languages, have a great advantage over those which are written in languages that are now spoken. Were there any mean phrases or idioms in Virgil...
Página 205 - Being, he frequently confesses his omnipotence, that being the perfection he was forced to allow him, and the only consideration which could support his pride under the shame of his defeat. Nor...
Página 110 - ... other particulars as may not properly fall under any of them. This I thought fit to...
Página 235 - Death produces those monsters and hell-hounds which from time to time enter into their mother, and tear the bowels of her who gave them birth. These are the terrors of an evil conscience, and the proper fruits of Sin, which naturally rise from the apprehensions of Death.
Página 137 - Y, when it precedes a vowel. This, and some other innovations in the measure of his verse, has varied his numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the ear, and cloying the reader, which the same uniform measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual returns of rhyme never fail to do in long narrative poems.
Página 88 - There is in these several characters of Homer, a certain dignity as well as novelty, which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the nature of an heroic poem. Though at the same time, to give them the greater variety, he has described a Vulcan, that is a buffoon among his gods, and a Thersites among his mortals.
Página 112 - I shall show more at large in another paper ; though considering how all the poets of the age in which he writ were infected with this wrong way of thinking, he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it, than that he did sometimes comply with the vicious taste which still prevails so much among modern writers.
Página 151 - A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Spectator, Volumen4 The Spectator |
| Edición | 12 |
| Editor | Tonson, 1738 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 4 Mar 2008 |
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