... 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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... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires , till which in some measure be compast , at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity ...
... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires , till which in some measure be compast , at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity ...
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... greater variety of Shapes and Appearances , all of which are severally de- tected , to the great Delight and Surprize of the Reader . + See also pp . 45 : 70-72 ; 133-135 . We may likewise observe with how much Art the Poet.
... greater variety of Shapes and Appearances , all of which are severally de- tected , to the great Delight and Surprize of the Reader . + See also pp . 45 : 70-72 ; 133-135 . We may likewise observe with how much Art the Poet.
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... observe with how much Art the Poet has varied several Characters of the Persons that speak in his infernal Affembly . On the contrary , how has he represented the whole Godhead exerting it self towards Man in its full Benevolence under ...
... observe with how much Art the Poet has varied several Characters of the Persons that speak in his infernal Affembly . On the contrary , how has he represented the whole Godhead exerting it self towards Man in its full Benevolence under ...
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... Observation out of Ariftotle , which hath been very much mifreprefented in the Quota- tions of fome Modern Criticks . ' If a Man of perfect ' and confummate Virtue falls into a Misfortune , it ' raises our Pity , but not our Terror ...
... Observation out of Ariftotle , which hath been very much mifreprefented in the Quota- tions of fome Modern Criticks . ' If a Man of perfect ' and confummate Virtue falls into a Misfortune , it ' raises our Pity , but not our Terror ...
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... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires , till which in some measure be compast , at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity ...
... observation , insight into all seemly and generous arts and affaires , till which in some measure be compast , at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity ...
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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...