| Duncan Crookes Tovey - 1897 - 208 páginas
...for the antithesis between the " material " and the " immaterial system." He says, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." To which Macaulay in effect replies that this was... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 682 páginas
...absolutely""TTe"cessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 254 páginas
...necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. " But," says he, " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the 25 reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 266 páginas
...necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have 10 secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said; but what if Milton could not... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 páginas
...in20 vested them with form and matter. This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping...drop it;" from' his thoughts. But he has unhappily 2 sV perplexed his poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 páginas
...absolutely necessary that the spirit should be clothed with material forms. "But," says he, "the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts." This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 páginas
...invested them with form and matter. 10 This, being necessary, was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping...his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers 15 are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the... | |
| John Milton - 1910 - 832 páginas
...the toad (iv. 800), and of the Serpent (ix. 85, 86, 187—90). There is in fact some inconsistency: "his infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes animated body" (Johnson). The difficulty is really insuperable, but Milton purposely modifies its effect, particularly... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1910 - 518 páginas
...Adam throws the blame of all upon his Maker. ' The woman that Thou gavest me,' etc." His (Milton's) infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit and sometimes animated body. "Stock of Killala2 believed that angels were not wholly immaterial ; he held that God alone could act... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 páginas
...necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms. ' But,' says he, ' the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.' This is easily said : but what if Milton could not... | |
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