... 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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... greater than that of the Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine ...
... greater than that of the Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Heathen could not form a higher Notion of a Poem than one of that kind , which they call an Heroic . Whether Milton's is not of a fublimer Nature I will not prefume to determine ...
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... greater part of the fourth column . The serial continues for ninety - three weeks . June 1. No. 80 appears . June 2. No. 81 appears . Sept. 13. No. 169 appears . Sept. 14. No. 170 appears . Nov. 20. No. 227 has the following ...
... greater part of the fourth column . The serial continues for ninety - three weeks . June 1. No. 80 appears . June 2. No. 81 appears . Sept. 13. No. 169 appears . Sept. 14. No. 170 appears . Nov. 20. No. 227 has the following ...
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... much Honour upon my self , as on my Readers , who give a much greater Attention to Discourses of Virtue and Morality , than ever I expected , or indeed could hope . When I broke loose from that great Body of Writers NUMB . CCLXIL.
... much Honour upon my self , as on my Readers , who give a much greater Attention to Discourses of Virtue and Morality , than ever I expected , or indeed could hope . When I broke loose from that great Body of Writers NUMB . CCLXIL.
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... greater Ease . One might raise Laughter for a Quarter of a Year together upon the Works of a Person who has published but a very few Volumes . For which Reasons I am aftonished , that those who have appeared against this Paper have made ...
... greater Ease . One might raise Laughter for a Quarter of a Year together upon the Works of a Person who has published but a very few Volumes . For which Reasons I am aftonished , that those who have appeared against this Paper have made ...
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... greater than either of the former ; it does not determine the Fate of single Persons or Nations , but of a whole Species . The united Powers of Hell are joyned together for the Destruction of Mankind , which they effected in part , and ...
... greater than either of the former ; it does not determine the Fate of single Persons or Nations , but of a whole Species . The united Powers of Hell are joyned together for the Destruction of Mankind , which they effected in part , and ...
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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...