Criticism on Milton's Paradise LostAlex. Murray & Son, 1868 - 152 páginas |
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... Love or Hatred , Pity or Terror , or any other Paffion , we ought to confider whether the Sentiments he makes ufe of are proper for these [ their ] Ends . Homer is cenfured by the Criticks for THE SENTIMENTS MUST BE BOTH NATURAL AND ...
... Love or Hatred , Pity or Terror , or any other Paffion , we ought to confider whether the Sentiments he makes ufe of are proper for these [ their ] Ends . Homer is cenfured by the Criticks for THE SENTIMENTS MUST BE BOTH NATURAL AND ...
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... Loves of Dido and Æneas are only Copies of what has paffed between other Perfons . Adam and Eve , before the Fall , are a different Species from that of Mankind , who are defcended from them ; and none but a Poet of the most unbounded ...
... Loves of Dido and Æneas are only Copies of what has paffed between other Perfons . Adam and Eve , before the Fall , are a different Species from that of Mankind , who are defcended from them ; and none but a Poet of the most unbounded ...
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... Love - tale Infected Sion's Daughters with like Heat , Whofe wanton Paffions in the facred Porch Ezekiel faw , when by the Vision led His Eye furvey'd the dark Idolatries Of alienated Judah . The Reader will pardon me if I infert as a ...
... Love - tale Infected Sion's Daughters with like Heat , Whofe wanton Paffions in the facred Porch Ezekiel faw , when by the Vision led His Eye furvey'd the dark Idolatries Of alienated Judah . The Reader will pardon me if I infert as a ...
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... Love and Religious Fear . The particular Beauty of the Speeches in the Third Book , confifts in that Shortnefs and Perfpicuity of Stile , in which the Poet has couched the greatest Myfteries of Christianity , and drawn together , in a ...
... Love and Religious Fear . The particular Beauty of the Speeches in the Third Book , confifts in that Shortnefs and Perfpicuity of Stile , in which the Poet has couched the greatest Myfteries of Christianity , and drawn together , in a ...
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... Love , Uninterrupted joy , unrival'd love , In blifsful Solitude ; he then furvey'd Hell and the Gulf between , and Satan there Coafting the Wall of Heav'n on this fide night In the dun air fublime , and ready now To floop with wearied ...
... Love , Uninterrupted joy , unrival'd love , In blifsful Solitude ; he then furvey'd Hell and the Gulf between , and Satan there Coafting the Wall of Heav'n on this fide night In the dun air fublime , and ready now To floop with wearied ...
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Página 4 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 4 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 3 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 75 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 118 - 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 67 - 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 83 - Heav'n receiv'd us falling, and the Thunder, Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless Deep. Let us not slip th' occasion, whether scorn, Or satiate fury yield it from our Foe.
Página 4 - ... are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's Almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with High Providence in his Church...
Página 127 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 25 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.