Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... rich and ac- complished minds say of him , who could find no true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton was neither rational nor moral . Milton might carry his love of democracy much too far : I , for one , assuredly ...
... rich and ac- complished minds say of him , who could find no true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton was neither rational nor moral . Milton might carry his love of democracy much too far : I , for one , assuredly ...
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... rich erudi- tion ; but what he possessed in love and admira- tion he wanted in power . His genius was not strong ; his style was diffuse and languid ; and his constant use of superlative epithets of a vague and trite character gave a ...
... rich erudi- tion ; but what he possessed in love and admira- tion he wanted in power . His genius was not strong ; his style was diffuse and languid ; and his constant use of superlative epithets of a vague and trite character gave a ...
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... rich and in- comparable pencil of Turner , will , I doubt not , secure the public favour to it . He has entered upon the work with the enthusiasm and fellow- feeling of a highly - endowed poetical mind , and in his daring flight has ...
... rich and in- comparable pencil of Turner , will , I doubt not , secure the public favour to it . He has entered upon the work with the enthusiasm and fellow- feeling of a highly - endowed poetical mind , and in his daring flight has ...
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... of com- moners , rich in domains as well as in blood , - who carried more respect and influence than most of the best of modern nobility . Percy , the Earl of Northumberland , was immured a prisoner in the 4 LIFE OF MILTON .
... of com- moners , rich in domains as well as in blood , - who carried more respect and influence than most of the best of modern nobility . Percy , the Earl of Northumberland , was immured a prisoner in the 4 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... rich . This state of things encouraged those political opinions which Milton's tutor , Young , had pro- bably instilled into him : but his acquaintance with the Countess of Derby at Harefield , and the Earl of Bridgewater , her son - in ...
... rich . This state of things encouraged those political opinions which Milton's tutor , Young , had pro- bably instilled into him : but his acquaintance with the Countess of Derby at Harefield , and the Earl of Bridgewater , her son - in ...
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.