Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... better , if it had been . It is occasionally encumbered . Milton conforms every thing to his own grand inventions . Shakspeare enters into the souls of others : Spenser brings them upon the stage in groups , in all the allegorical ...
... better , if it had been . It is occasionally encumbered . Milton conforms every thing to his own grand inventions . Shakspeare enters into the souls of others : Spenser brings them upon the stage in groups , in all the allegorical ...
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... better to deal with the invisible world than with the visible ; but we ought to associate them together : mere description is always imperfect : all the grandeur of natural scenery will not avail , unless by its tendency to operate on ...
... better to deal with the invisible world than with the visible ; but we ought to associate them together : mere description is always imperfect : all the grandeur of natural scenery will not avail , unless by its tendency to operate on ...
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... better to give more of the pathos , and less of the objects . : 6 This faculty , indeed , was not Milton's chief ex- cellence now and then he is pathetic in Para- dise Lost , ' but he has none of Shakspeare's human pathos he was too ...
... better to give more of the pathos , and less of the objects . : 6 This faculty , indeed , was not Milton's chief ex- cellence now and then he is pathetic in Para- dise Lost , ' but he has none of Shakspeare's human pathos he was too ...
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... better would it like him doubtless to be the mes- senger of gladness and contentment , which is his chief intended business to all mankind , but that they resist and oppose their own happiness . " But when God commands to take the ...
... better would it like him doubtless to be the mes- senger of gladness and contentment , which is his chief intended business to all mankind , but that they resist and oppose their own happiness . " But when God commands to take the ...
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... this her distracted estate into better days , without the least furtherance or contribution of those few talents , which God at that present had lent me ; I foresee what stories I should hear within myself , 90 LIFE OF MILTON .
... this her distracted estate into better days , without the least furtherance or contribution of those few talents , which God at that present had lent me ; I foresee what stories I should hear within myself , 90 LIFE OF MILTON .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison admiration ancient Andrew Marvell angels appear bard beautiful blind character Comus Countess of Derby critic Dante daughter delight divine Dryden elegy English enthusiasm epic exalted fable fancy father fiction Forest-hill genius glory grand grandeur Gray hath heart Heaven holy Homer honour human Il Penseroso imagery images imagination intellectual invention J. M. W. TURNER John Milton Johnson Joseph Warton King L'Allegro labour language Latin learning less liberty lived lofty Lycidas majesty ment mind moral Muse native nature never noble observation opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages passions perhaps person Petrarch picturesque poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Powell praise Puritan racter reader rich Samson Agonistes says seems sentiment Shakspeare solemn Sonnets Spenser spirit style sublime Tasso taste thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth verse virtue vulgar Warton wisdom words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 210 - Daughters, but by 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.
Seite 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Seite 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Seite 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Seite 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Seite 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Seite 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Seite 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Seite 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.