Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with feemly arts and affairs ; his comprehenfion was extended by various knowledge , and his memory stored with ex- M 1 L TO N. 79 fee great works in their feminal state, ...
... excellence ; he had made himself acquainted with feemly arts and affairs ; his comprehenfion was extended by various knowledge , and his memory stored with ex- M 1 L TO N. 79 fee great works in their feminal state, ...
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... have this evidence of genius , that they have a caft original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from the verfcs of others , they 14 1 they differ for the worfe ; for they are MILTON . 1-51.
... have this evidence of genius , that they have a caft original and unborrowed . But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from the verfcs of others , they 14 1 they differ for the worfe ; for they are MILTON . 1-51.
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... excellence is acquired ; what we hope ever to do with ease , we may learn firft to do with dili- gence . Those who admire the beauties of this great poet , fometimes force their own own judgement into falfe approbation of his little ...
... excellence is acquired ; what we hope ever to do with ease , we may learn firft to do with dili- gence . Those who admire the beauties of this great poet , fometimes force their own own judgement into falfe approbation of his little ...
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... excellence of fuavity and foftnefs ; he was a Lion that had no fkill in dandling the Kid . One of the poems on which much . praise has been bestowed is Lycidas ; of which the diction is harsh , the rhymes . uncertain , and the numbers ...
... excellence of fuavity and foftnefs ; he was a Lion that had no fkill in dandling the Kid . One of the poems on which much . praise has been bestowed is Lycidas ; of which the diction is harsh , the rhymes . uncertain , and the numbers ...
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Samuel Johnson. felf within the limits of rigorous com- parison his great excellence is ampli- tude , and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimenfions which the occafion required . Thus , comparing the fhield of Satan to the ...
Samuel Johnson. felf within the limits of rigorous com- parison his great excellence is ampli- tude , and he expands the adventitious image beyond the dimenfions which the occafion required . Thus , comparing the fhield of Satan to the ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 146 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Página 203 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Página 120 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 199 - ... by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers, of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank 'verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to the eye.
Página 17 - ... 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 203 - ... he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Página 136 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Página 123 - He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected, that his predominant desire was to destroy, rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty, as repugnance to authority.
Página 153 - Milton must be confessed to have equalled every other poet. He has involved in his account of the Fall of Man the events...
Página 152 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.