Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From ʻThe Spectatorʼ. 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son, 1868 - 152 páginas |
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... Wherein is set foorth his extreame slauerie sus- tained many yeres togither , in the Gallies and wars of the great Turk against the Landes of Persia , Tartaria , Spaine , and Portugall , with the manner of his release- ment , and ...
... Wherein is set foorth his extreame slauerie sus- tained many yeres togither , in the Gallies and wars of the great Turk against the Landes of Persia , Tartaria , Spaine , and Portugall , with the manner of his release- ment , and ...
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... wherein he has either changed the Name , or made use of that which is not the most com- monly known , that he might the better deviate from the Language of the Vulgar . The fame Reason recommended to him several old Words , which alfo ...
... wherein he has either changed the Name , or made use of that which is not the most com- monly known , that he might the better deviate from the Language of the Vulgar . The fame Reason recommended to him several old Words , which alfo ...
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... wherein the Event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind ; notwithstanding many excellent Pieces among the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country ...
... wherein the Event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an Audience than that of the first kind ; notwithstanding many excellent Pieces among the Ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late Years in our own Country ...
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... wherein his Person is described in those celebrated Lines : He , above the rest In fhape and gefture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower , & c . His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Cha- racter , and are * suitable to a created ...
... wherein his Person is described in those celebrated Lines : He , above the rest In fhape and gefture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower , & c . His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Cha- racter , and are * suitable to a created ...
Página 58
... Hive , of the Fairy Dance , in the view wherein I have here placed them , he will easily discover the great Beauties that are in each of those Paffages . The SPECTATOR . Di , quibus imperium eft animarum ,. 58 CRITICISM OF BOOK I.
... Hive , of the Fairy Dance , in the view wherein I have here placed them , he will easily discover the great Beauties that are in each of those Paffages . The SPECTATOR . Di , quibus imperium eft animarum ,. 58 CRITICISM OF BOOK I.
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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.