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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vi. oldal
... things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he fpann'd , Jealous I was that fome lefs fkilful hand ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And , by ill imitating , would excell , ) Might ...
... things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he fpann'd , Jealous I was that fome lefs fkilful hand ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And , by ill imitating , would excell , ) Might ...
xii. oldal
... things his eye , through wit's bright empire thrown , Beheld ; and made , what it beheld , his own . Such MILTON was : ' Tis ours to bring him forth ; And yours to vindicate neglected worth . Such heaven - taught numbers fhould be more ...
... things his eye , through wit's bright empire thrown , Beheld ; and made , what it beheld , his own . Such MILTON was : ' Tis ours to bring him forth ; And yours to vindicate neglected worth . Such heaven - taught numbers fhould be more ...
3. oldal
... thing to be con- fidered in an epick poem , is the FABLE , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or lefs fo . This ACTION fhould have three qualifications in it . Firft , it fhould B 2.
... thing to be con- fidered in an epick poem , is the FABLE , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or lefs fo . This ACTION fhould have three qualifications in it . Firft , it fhould B 2.
4. oldal
... things ; as Horace has obferved . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the ... thing material which re- lates to them , and had paffed before that fatal dif- fenfion . After the fame manner ...
... things ; as Horace has obferved . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the ... thing material which re- lates to them , and had paffed before that fatal dif- fenfion . After the fame manner ...
7. oldal
... thing that is great in the whole circle of being , whether within the verge of nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable Poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal ...
... thing that is great in the whole circle of being , whether within the verge of nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable Poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal ...
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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...