Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... thy flight ? on Thomas Warton observes of this Ode , that " the whole , from a boy of seventeen , it is an extraordinary effort of fancy , expression , and ver- sification : even in the conceits , which are many LIFE OF MILTON . 7.
... thy flight ? on Thomas Warton observes of this Ode , that " the whole , from a boy of seventeen , it is an extraordinary effort of fancy , expression , and ver- sification : even in the conceits , which are many LIFE OF MILTON . 7.
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... expression , a dignity of sentiment , and elevation of thought , rarely found in very young writers . " The poem consists of sixty - nine lines . The whole is beautiful . In answer to those who assert the liability of nature to old age ...
... expression , a dignity of sentiment , and elevation of thought , rarely found in very young writers . " The poem consists of sixty - nine lines . The whole is beautiful . In answer to those who assert the liability of nature to old age ...
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... expressions for what he really feels . Now and then there may be a momentary blaze in inferior authors ; but , in bards ... expression : it contains some passages which wander far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are in his own ...
... expressions for what he really feels . Now and then there may be a momentary blaze in inferior authors ; but , in bards ... expression : it contains some passages which wander far beyond the bounds of bucolic song , and are in his own ...
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... expression , " revocabo in carmina , " the poet means , that these ancient kings , which were once the themes of the British bards , should now again be celebrated in verse . Milton , in his 6 Church Government , ' written in 1641 ...
... expression , " revocabo in carmina , " the poet means , that these ancient kings , which were once the themes of the British bards , should now again be celebrated in verse . Milton , in his 6 Church Government , ' written in 1641 ...
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... expression . " To this the critic adds many other excellent observa- tions . A Mask , written for a private theatre , and to be performed by highly - educated actors , is not like a play to be exhibited to a mixed and common audience ...
... expression . " To this the critic adds many other excellent observa- tions . A Mask , written for a private theatre , and to be performed by highly - educated actors , is not like a play to be exhibited to a mixed and common audience ...
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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.