Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From ʻThe Spectatorʼ. 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son, 1868 - 152 páginas |
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... given a greater Variety to his Numbers . But this Practice is more particularly remarkable in the Names of Per- fons and Countries , as Beelzebub , Heffebon , and in many other Particulars , wherein he has either changed the Name , or ...
... given a greater Variety to his Numbers . But this Practice is more particularly remarkable in the Names of Per- fons and Countries , as Beelzebub , Heffebon , and in many other Particulars , wherein he has either changed the Name , or ...
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... given no Reason for this Precept ; but I presume it is because the Mind of the Reader is more awed and elevated when he hears Æneas or Achilles fpeak , than when Virgil or Homer talk in their own Perfons . Besides that affum- ing the ...
... given no Reason for this Precept ; but I presume it is because the Mind of the Reader is more awed and elevated when he hears Æneas or Achilles fpeak , than when Virgil or Homer talk in their own Perfons . Besides that affum- ing the ...
Página 48
... given it a place in his Rhetorick among the Beauties of that Art . But as it is in itsself poor and trifling , it is I think at present uni- verfally exploded by all the Masters of polite Writing . The laft Fault which I fhall take ...
... given it a place in his Rhetorick among the Beauties of that Art . But as it is in itsself poor and trifling , it is I think at present uni- verfally exploded by all the Masters of polite Writing . The laft Fault which I fhall take ...
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... given us by the late ingenious Mr. Maundrell of this Antient Piece of Worship , and probably the first Occasion of such a Superstition . " We came to a fair large River . . · doubtless the Antient River Adonis , fo famous for the ...
... given us by the late ingenious Mr. Maundrell of this Antient Piece of Worship , and probably the first Occasion of such a Superstition . " We came to a fair large River . . · doubtless the Antient River Adonis , fo famous for the ...
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... given it ; tho ' as I have before hinted , it may rather be looked upon as an Excrescence , than as an effential Part of the Poem . The fame Obfervation might be applied to that beautiful Digreffion upon Hypocrifie , in the fame Book ...
... given it ; tho ' as I have before hinted , it may rather be looked upon as an Excrescence , than as an effential Part of the Poem . The fame Obfervation might be applied to that beautiful Digreffion upon Hypocrifie , in the fame Book ...
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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.