Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, ... |
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Página 37
As the poet very much excels in this consistency of his characters , I shall beg
leave to consider several passages of the second book in this light . That superior
greatness and mock - majesty , which is ascribed to the prince of the fallen
Angels ...
As the poet very much excels in this consistency of his characters , I shall beg
leave to consider several passages of the second book in this light . That superior
greatness and mock - majesty , which is ascribed to the prince of the fallen
Angels ...
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Our poet follows their example toth as to the number and the names of these
infernal rivers , and exceller tly describes their nature and properties , with the
explanation of their names , Styx so named from a Greek word that signifies to
hate and ...
Our poet follows their example toth as to the number and the names of these
infernal rivers , and exceller tly describes their nature and properties , with the
explanation of their names , Styx so named from a Greek word that signifies to
hate and ...
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... exotic names give a less vulgar cast to the similitude than places in our
channel and in our own seas would have done . 645. And thrice threefold the
gates ; ] The gates had nine folds , nine plates , nine linings ; as Homer and the
other poets ...
... exotic names give a less vulgar cast to the similitude than places in our
channel and in our own seas would have done . 645. And thrice threefold the
gates ; ] The gates had nine folds , nine plates , nine linings ; as Homer and the
other poets ...
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The particular beauty of the speeches in the third book consists in that shortness
and perspicuity of stile , in which the poet has couched the greatest mysteries of
Christianity , and drawn together in a regular scheme the whole dipensation of ...
The particular beauty of the speeches in the third book consists in that shortness
and perspicuity of stile , in which the poet has couched the greatest mysteries of
Christianity , and drawn together in a regular scheme the whole dipensation of ...
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The great secret therefore of her . ic poetry is to relate such circumstances , as
may produce in the reader at the same time both belief and astonishment . This is
brought to pass in a well cho . sen fable , by the account of such things as have ...
The great secret therefore of her . ic poetry is to relate such circumstances , as
may produce in the reader at the same time both belief and astonishment . This is
brought to pass in a well cho . sen fable , by the account of such things as have ...
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beautiful, absolutely riveting and spontaneuos combustion.... Covered an enormous breadth and all the while rememembered the pretty white horses
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Página 200 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Página 180 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 231 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Página 167 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Página 213 - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Página 212 - And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host : and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Página 233 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 115 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 196 - 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 237 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, ... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, John Milton |
| Autor | John Milton |
| Editor | proprietors, 1795 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 25 Sep. 2006 |
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