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... his hand and smote King David . ' Their interest is biographic merely . They
shew that their author could at this time repress poetic instinct and forego poetic
skill , and seeking after simplicity fall into utter bathos . his Solitudes and
Sufferings .
... his hand and smote King David . ' Their interest is biographic merely . They
shew that their author could at this time repress poetic instinct and forego poetic
skill , and seeking after simplicity fall into utter bathos . his Solitudes and
Sufferings .
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Milton ' s writings fall naturally into three periods , each having a distinct character
. These are :1 . The Early Verse period : ending with his return from the continent
in 1638 . II . The Prose period : from 1638 to the Restoration . III . The Later ...
Milton ' s writings fall naturally into three periods , each having a distinct character
. These are :1 . The Early Verse period : ending with his return from the continent
in 1638 . II . The Prose period : from 1638 to the Restoration . III . The Later ...
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The few defects owe their disagreeable prominence to the vigour of the metre , by
which an awkward metaphor or a forced conceit is not veiled as by the gently -
falling drapery of the Spenserian numbers . In his lines on the Passion , Milton ...
The few defects owe their disagreeable prominence to the vigour of the metre , by
which an awkward metaphor or a forced conceit is not veiled as by the gently -
falling drapery of the Spenserian numbers . In his lines on the Passion , Milton ...
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... but in Comus the first is more insisted on , as in Lycidas the graver emphasis
falls upon the second . We are too apt to derive our notion of Charles I . solely
from the grave face that looks out from the canvas of Vandyke , and to strengthen
that ...
... but in Comus the first is more insisted on , as in Lycidas the graver emphasis
falls upon the second . We are too apt to derive our notion of Charles I . solely
from the grave face that looks out from the canvas of Vandyke , and to strengthen
that ...
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Henceforth there will be no more quiet communing with English oaks and rills . A
brief holiday interposes between him and a time of chiding , ' which with small
respite will vex his spirit till wearied and worn he rests at last " Though fall ' n on ...
Henceforth there will be no more quiet communing with English oaks and rills . A
brief holiday interposes between him and a time of chiding , ' which with small
respite will vex his spirit till wearied and worn he rests at last " Though fall ' n on ...
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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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volumen1 Clar. press ser., Engl. classics English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Richard Charles Browne |
| Autor | John Milton |
| Editor | Richard Charles Browne |
| Publicado | 1870 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 26 Sep. 2006 |
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