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The elder Milton did not send his poet son " into the resorts of commerce , nor
hurry him into the study of the law , but allowed him to wander a happy
companion of Apollo far from the noise of town and shut up in deep retreats . ' Of
this ...
The elder Milton did not send his poet son " into the resorts of commerce , nor
hurry him into the study of the law , but allowed him to wander a happy
companion of Apollo far from the noise of town and shut up in deep retreats . ' Of
this ...
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pest , ' when the princes prepare to set sail for Naples , Prospero resolves to bury
fathoms deep his rod and book of power ; and as the Old World associations
resume their sway , the spell which entranced us is broken , and the receding ...
pest , ' when the princes prepare to set sail for Naples , Prospero resolves to bury
fathoms deep his rod and book of power ; and as the Old World associations
resume their sway , the spell which entranced us is broken , and the receding ...
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And yet in the lines On Shakespeare , Milton pays homage to one whose humour
is as deep as human nature itself . He there recognises the immortality and the
immeasurable value of works which he never attempted directly to imitate ...
And yet in the lines On Shakespeare , Milton pays homage to one whose humour
is as deep as human nature itself . He there recognises the immortality and the
immeasurable value of works which he never attempted directly to imitate ...
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... exercises of the Puritans : * Deep - sighted in intelligences , Ideas , atoms ,
influences . ' His mental , like his physical elevation , is high and lonely .
Cathedral and cloister do not afford seclusion deep enough for his weary age .
The hermit ' s ...
... exercises of the Puritans : * Deep - sighted in intelligences , Ideas , atoms ,
influences . ' His mental , like his physical elevation , is high and lonely .
Cathedral and cloister do not afford seclusion deep enough for his weary age .
The hermit ' s ...
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In straining every point to divest of its perilous attraction the closing scene at
Whitehall , Milton shewed how deep was the impression it had made . The '
dismal groan ' of the assembled crowd at the falling of the axe found an echo in
the hearts ...
In straining every point to divest of its perilous attraction the closing scene at
Whitehall , Milton shewed how deep was the impression it had made . The '
dismal groan ' of the assembled crowd at the falling of the axe found an echo in
the hearts ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aeneid Aeschylus angels appear arms battle Book bright called Comus dark death deep delight divine earth England eternal evil expression eyes Faery Queene fair fall Father fear fire force give glory gods grace hand happy hast hath head Heav'n Hell Henry hill hope Iliad John Keightley King Lady Latin leave less light live look Lord means Milton mind morn Nativity nature never night Odes once Paradise Lost passage poem poet praise received rest round Satan says sense Shakespeare side sight sing Smectymnuus song Sonnet soon soul sound speaks speech Spenser spirits stand stars stood sweet thee things thou thought throne till turn winds wings
Pasajes populares
Página 146 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 78 - Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flowerets of a thousand hues.
Página 35 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown...
Página 27 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Página 95 - 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 198 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Página 88 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Página 94 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página 56 - He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Página 145 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.