... Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost: From 'The Spectator'. 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712 ...A. Murray & son, 1863 - 152 páginas |
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... such a folly as wisest men going about to com- mit , have only confest and so committed , I may trust with more reason , because with more folly to have courteous pardon . For although a Poet soaring in the high region of his fancies ...
... such a folly as wisest men going about to com- mit , have only confest and so committed , I may trust with more reason , because with more folly to have courteous pardon . For although a Poet soaring in the high region of his fancies ...
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... such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herselfe , unlesse they see her elegantly drest , that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult ...
... such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herselfe , unlesse they see her elegantly drest , that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult ...
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... such a Manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private Per- fons . For this Reason when I draw any faulty Character , I confider all those Perfons to whom the Malice of the World may poffibly apply it , and take care to ...
... such a Manner , that nothing may be interpreted as aimed at private Per- fons . For this Reason when I draw any faulty Character , I confider all those Perfons to whom the Malice of the World may poffibly apply it , and take care to ...
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... such Beauties in their Works as may have escaped the Ob- fervation of others . As the first Place among our English Poets is due to Milton , and as I have drawn more Quotations out of him than from any other , I shall enter into a ...
... such Beauties in their Works as may have escaped the Ob- fervation of others . As the first Place among our English Poets is due to Milton , and as I have drawn more Quotations out of him than from any other , I shall enter into a ...
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... such empty unsubstantial Beings may be ever made use of on this occafion , there were never any more nicely imagined , and employed in more proper Actions , than those of which I am now speaking . † Another Principal Actor in this Poem ...
... such empty unsubstantial Beings may be ever made use of on this occafion , there were never any more nicely imagined , and employed in more proper Actions , than those of which I am now speaking . † Another Principal Actor in this Poem ...
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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 4 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed 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 51 - 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 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 59 - 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.
Página 3 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine...
Página 102 - 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 4 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, 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...
Página 3 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Página 52 - ... 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...