Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From ʻThe Spectatorʼ. 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son, 1868 - 152 páginas |
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... Hand a Reed Stood waving tipt with Fire ; - The graffie Clods now calv'd.- In these and several [ innumerable ] other Inftances , the Metaphors are very bold but beautiful ; I must however obferve , that the Metaphors are not thick fown ...
... Hand a Reed Stood waving tipt with Fire ; - The graffie Clods now calv'd.- In these and several [ innumerable ] other Inftances , the Metaphors are very bold but beautiful ; I must however obferve , that the Metaphors are not thick fown ...
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... Hands it falls into , the Rabble of Mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at with any mixture of Wit , is ridiculous in it felf . Such a Mirth as this , is always unfeasonable in a Critick , as it rather ...
... Hands it falls into , the Rabble of Mankind being very apt to think that every thing which is laughed at with any mixture of Wit , is ridiculous in it felf . Such a Mirth as this , is always unfeasonable in a Critick , as it rather ...
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... hand the flames Driv'n backward flope their pointing Spires , and rowl'd In Billows , leave i ' th ' midft a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he fteers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky Air That felt unufual weight . -His ...
... hand the flames Driv'n backward flope their pointing Spires , and rowl'd In Billows , leave i ' th ' midft a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he fteers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky Air That felt unufual weight . -His ...
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... Instances of that proud and daring Mind which could not brook Submiffion even to Omnipotence . Satan was now at hand , and from his Seat The Monfler moving onward came as faft With horrid frides , Hell trembled as he flrode , NUMB . CCCIX .
... Instances of that proud and daring Mind which could not brook Submiffion even to Omnipotence . Satan was now at hand , and from his Seat The Monfler moving onward came as faft With horrid frides , Hell trembled as he flrode , NUMB . CCCIX .
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... hand in hand they pafs'd , the loveliest pair That ever fince in loves embraces met . There is a fine Spirit of Poetry in the Lines which follow , wherein they are defcrib'd as fitting on a Bed of Flowers by the side of a Fountain ...
... hand in hand they pafs'd , the loveliest pair That ever fince in loves embraces met . There is a fine Spirit of Poetry in the Lines which follow , wherein they are defcrib'd as fitting on a Bed of Flowers by the side of a Fountain ...
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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.