The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem; Notes Critical and Explanatory; and Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost; and a Verbal Index to All the PoemsSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 688 páginas |
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... , hardly any distinguished English scholar has not felt it a sort of duty as well as privilege , to cast in his mite in praise of this wonderful man . REMARKS ON BOOK I. THIS Book on the whole is 16 A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... , hardly any distinguished English scholar has not felt it a sort of duty as well as privilege , to cast in his mite in praise of this wonderful man . REMARKS ON BOOK I. THIS Book on the whole is 16 A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... praise here urged have not been duly noticed before . I must here also repeat my conviction , that of all critics , Addison is the most beautiful , eloquent , and just : he enters deep into the fable , the imagery , and the sentiment ...
... praise here urged have not been duly noticed before . I must here also repeat my conviction , that of all critics , Addison is the most beautiful , eloquent , and just : he enters deep into the fable , the imagery , and the sentiment ...
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... praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes ; whom the supreme King Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in ...
... praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes ; whom the supreme King Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in ...
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... praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man ; but God again declares , that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice ; man hath offended the ma- jesty of God by ...
... praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man ; but God again declares , that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice ; man hath offended the ma- jesty of God by ...
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... Where only , what they needs must do , appear'd , 105 Not what they would : what praise could they receive ? 98. Just and right . Eccles . vii . 29 . What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will 68 BOOK III . PARADISE LOST .
... Where only , what they needs must do , appear'd , 105 Not what they would : what praise could they receive ? 98. Just and right . Eccles . vii . 29 . What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will 68 BOOK III . PARADISE LOST .
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Arethuse arms beautiful behold bliss bright BRYDGES call'd clouds Comus Dagon dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear fruit glory gods grace hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour Il Penseroso King L'Allegro less light live Lord Lycidas Messiah Milton mind morning night nymph o'er Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd peace Philistines poem poet poetical poetry praise reign replied return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song SONNET soon soul spake spirits stars stood strength sublime sweet taste thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tion tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice WARTON whence winds wings wonder words
Pasajes populares
Página 458 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Página 463 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Página 466 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 466 - And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 67 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 405 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 66 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
Página 232 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 66 - Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — -dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Página 464 - Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And, to the stack or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering Morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.