The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volumen2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... speech and behaviour , as are fuitable to a fuperiour nature . The Angels are , indeed , as much diver- fified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ...
... speech and behaviour , as are fuitable to a fuperiour nature . The Angels are , indeed , as much diver- fified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ...
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... speech , on purpose to palliate little errours of this nature in the writings of thofe authors who had fo may greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perfpicuity were only to be con- fulted , the poet would have nothing ...
... speech , on purpose to palliate little errours of this nature in the writings of thofe authors who had fo may greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perfpicuity were only to be con- fulted , the poet would have nothing ...
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... speech . The judgement of a poet very much difcovers it- felf in fhunning the common roads of expreffion , without falling into fuch ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he muft not fwell into a falfe fublime , by ...
... speech . The judgement of a poet very much difcovers it- felf in fhunning the common roads of expreffion , without falling into fuch ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he muft not fwell into a falfe fublime , by ...
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... speech which this poet has naturalized to give his verse the greater found , and throw it out of profe . C Yet to their general's voice they foon obey'd- ] This form perhaps originated with Chaucer . See the Note on B. i . 337 . It is ...
... speech which this poet has naturalized to give his verse the greater found , and throw it out of profe . C Yet to their general's voice they foon obey'd- ] This form perhaps originated with Chaucer . See the Note on B. i . 337 . It is ...
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... speech , which Ariftotle calls " foreign language , " and with which Milton has fo very much enriched , and in fome places darkened , the language of his Poem , was the more proper for his ufe , becaufe his Poem is written in blank ...
... speech , which Ariftotle calls " foreign language , " and with which Milton has fo very much enriched , and in fome places darkened , the language of his Poem , was the more proper for his ufe , becaufe his Poem is written in blank ...
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Página 123 - 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 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Página 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Página 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Página 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Página 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Página 230 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...