Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From ʻThe Spectatorʼ. 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son, 1868 - 152 páginas |
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... subject , purpose , and character , - -seems unmeaning and purposeless ; would often tax the purchaser with works he did not desire ; and would fetter the use in large quantities of any particular work , for class study , debating ...
... subject , purpose , and character , - -seems unmeaning and purposeless ; would often tax the purchaser with works he did not desire ; and would fetter the use in large quantities of any particular work , for class study , debating ...
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... Subject of Derision . A Man , who cannot write with Wit on a proper Subject , is dull and stupid , but one who fhews it in an improper place , is as impertinent and abfurd . Befides , a Man who has the Gift of Ridicule is very * apt to ...
... Subject of Derision . A Man , who cannot write with Wit on a proper Subject , is dull and stupid , but one who fhews it in an improper place , is as impertinent and abfurd . Befides , a Man who has the Gift of Ridicule is very * apt to ...
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... Subject of this without farther Preface , and remark the several Defects which appear in the Fable , the Characters , the Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradife Loft ; not doubting but the Reader will pardon me , if I ...
... Subject of this without farther Preface , and remark the several Defects which appear in the Fable , the Characters , the Sentiments , and the Language of Milton's Paradife Loft ; not doubting but the Reader will pardon me , if I ...
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... Cato , and not he himself , who utter'd his Thoughts on that Subject . If the Reader would be at the pains to see how the Story of the Iliad and the Æneid is delivered by those 46 DEFECTS . THE SENTIMENTS : PUNS , TOO FREQUENT.
... Cato , and not he himself , who utter'd his Thoughts on that Subject . If the Reader would be at the pains to see how the Story of the Iliad and the Æneid is delivered by those 46 DEFECTS . THE SENTIMENTS : PUNS , TOO FREQUENT.
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... Subject , of which he treats . I do not find fault with these Allusions , where the Poet himself represents them as fabulous , as he does in fome Places , but where he mentions them as Truths and Matters of Fact . The Limits of my Paper ...
... Subject , of which he treats . I do not find fault with these Allusions , where the Poet himself represents them as fabulous , as he does in fome Places , but where he mentions them as Truths and Matters of Fact . The Limits of my Paper ...
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Adam and Eve Adam's Æneas Æneid alſo Angels appear Ariftotle aſtoniſhing Author Battel beautiful becauſe Circumſtances Converſation courſe Creation Criticiſm Criticks Death defcending deſcribed Deſcription diſcover Divine Earth EDWARD ARBER Epiſode Exiſtence Expreffion exquifitely Fable faid fame fecond feems felf feveral fhall fhew fhort firft Firſt Book firſt Parents fome fuch fufficient fuitable fweet Heav'n Hell Heroic Poem himſelf Hiſtory Hoft Homer Iliad Images Imagination Infernal Inftances juſt laft laſt likewiſe Mankind Maſter meaſure Meffiah Milton moſt muſt Nature noble obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife Loft particular Paſſage Perfons Phraſes pleaſed Pleaſure Poet Poetical Poetry prefent racter raiſed Reader Reaſon repreſented rifes riſe ſame Satan ſeems ſelf Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeaking SPECTATOR Speech Spirit ſtill Sublime ſuch take notice Thammuz thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou Thought univerfal uſe Verſe Virgil Viſion wherein whofe whole Poem
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Página 77 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 126 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 53 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 121 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 91 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 78 - ... his starting up in his own form is wonderfully fine, both in the literal description, and in the moral which is concealed under it. His answer...
Página 68 - He has represented all the abstruse doctrines of predestination, free-will, and grace, as also the great points of incarnation and redemption (which naturally grow up in a poem that treats of the fall of man) with great energy of expression, and in a clearer and stronger light than I ever met with in any other writer.
Página 103 - Held by thy voice, thy potent voice, he hears, And longer will delay to hear thee tell His generation...
Página 56 - He spake; and, to confirm his words, out-flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Página 85 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.