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, 2. kötetJ. Johnson, 1809 |
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3. oldal
... kind of poetry ; and as for thofe who allege it is not an heroick poem , they advance no more to the di- minution of it , than if they fhould fay Adam is not Eneas , or Eve Helen . I fhall therefore examine it by the rules of epick ...
... kind of poetry ; and as for thofe who allege it is not an heroick poem , they advance no more to the di- minution of it , than if they fhould fay Adam is not Eneas , or Eve Helen . I fhall therefore examine it by the rules of epick ...
6. oldal
... kind of beauty which the criticks admire in the Spanish Friar , or the Double Discovery , where the two different plots look like counter - parts and copies of one another . The fecond qualification required in the action of an epick ...
... kind of beauty which the criticks admire in the Spanish Friar , or the Double Discovery , where the two different plots look like counter - parts and copies of one another . The fecond qualification required in the action of an epick ...
7. oldal
... kind in the Iliad , as liable to any cenfure in this parti- cular ; but I think we may fay , without derogating from thofe wonderful performances , that there is an indifputable and unqueftioned magnificence in every part of Paradife ...
... kind in the Iliad , as liable to any cenfure in this parti- cular ; but I think we may fay , without derogating from thofe wonderful performances , that there is an indifputable and unqueftioned magnificence in every part of Paradife ...
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... kind , as I fhall fhow more at large hereafter . Virgil has , indeed , admitted Fame as an actress in the Eneid ; but the part the acts is very fhort , and none of the most admired circumftances in that divine work . We find in mock ...
... kind , as I fhall fhow more at large hereafter . Virgil has , indeed , admitted Fame as an actress in the Eneid ; but the part the acts is very fhort , and none of the most admired circumftances in that divine work . We find in mock ...
21. oldal
... kind of thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil . He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid ; none of the epigrammatick turns of Lucan ; none of those ...
... kind of thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil . He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid ; none of the epigrammatick turns of Lucan ; none of those ...
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Adam Adam and Eve againſt alfo alſo ancient Andreini Angels beauty becauſe Beelzebub Belial Bentley Chaos character circumftances criticks darkneſs Death defcribed defcription defign Du Bartas earth edition epick poem expreffed expreffion fable Faer faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fhow fimilar fince fire firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpeaking fpeech ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofed fyllable Heaven Hell heroick himſelf hoft Homer Iliad infernal inftances itſelf juft laft laſt lefs likewife meaſure Milton mind moft Moloch moſt muft muſt nature NEWTON numbers obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfons phrafe poet poetical poetry prefent profe racters radife reader reafon reft reprefented rifing Satan ſpeaking Spenfer Spirits ſtate Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought THYER TODD tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil whofe words worfe
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123. oldal - 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.
418. oldal - 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...
384. oldal - 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?
314. oldal - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
446. oldal - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
193. oldal - 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...
379. oldal - 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...
300. oldal - 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...
230. oldal - ... 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...
43. oldal - 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...