... 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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... hero unsuccessful , and it has too many digreffions . The Allegorical perfons in the Characters . The Sentiments fometimes degenerate into puns ; have too frequent allufions to heathen fables as true ; and very frequently display ...
... hero unsuccessful , and it has too many digreffions . The Allegorical perfons in the Characters . The Sentiments fometimes degenerate into puns ; have too frequent allufions to heathen fables as true ; and very frequently display ...
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... Hero relate it by way of Episode in the second and third Books of the Eneid . The Contents of both which Books come be- fore those of the first Book in the Thread of the Story , tho ' for preferving of this Unity of Action , they follow ...
... Hero relate it by way of Episode in the second and third Books of the Eneid . The Contents of both which Books come be- fore those of the first Book in the Thread of the Story , tho ' for preferving of this Unity of Action , they follow ...
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... Heroes of Troy , and engaged all the Gods in Factions . Eneas's Settlement in Italy produced the Cafars , and gave Birth to the Roman Empire . Milton's Subject was still greater than either of the former ; it does not determine the Fate ...
... Heroes of Troy , and engaged all the Gods in Factions . Eneas's Settlement in Italy produced the Cafars , and gave Birth to the Roman Empire . Milton's Subject was still greater than either of the former ; it does not determine the Fate ...
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... Heroes . His principal Actor is the Off - spring [ Son ] of a Goddess , not to mention the Son [ Off- fpring ] of Aurora [ other Deities ] , who has [ have ] like- wife a Place in his Poem , and the venerable Trojan Prince , who was the ...
... Heroes . His principal Actor is the Off - spring [ Son ] of a Goddess , not to mention the Son [ Off- fpring ] of Aurora [ other Deities ] , who has [ have ] like- wife a Place in his Poem , and the venerable Trojan Prince , who was the ...
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... Hero's Friend , he does nothing in the whole Poem which may deserve that Title . Gyas , Mnefleus , Sergeftus , and Cloanthus , are all of them Men of the fame Stamp and Character , -Fortemque Gyan , fortemque Cloanthum [ Virg . ] There ...
... Hero's Friend , he does nothing in the whole Poem which may deserve that Title . Gyas , Mnefleus , Sergeftus , and Cloanthus , are all of them Men of the fame Stamp and Character , -Fortemque Gyan , fortemque Cloanthum [ Virg . ] There ...
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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...