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... Lycidas " — poems so perfect that many critics laying aside their judgment , which must al- ways consider quantity as well as quality of work , have actually regarded them as the most adequate expression of Milton's poetical genius ...
... Lycidas " — poems so perfect that many critics laying aside their judgment , which must al- ways consider quantity as well as quality of work , have actually regarded them as the most adequate expression of Milton's poetical genius ...
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... Penseroso , " with a few pendant pieces ; then " Arcades " and " Comus , " both being masques ; and finally " Lycidas , " together with the other elegies of which it is This 59 - WORKS CHAPTER I EARLIEST POEMS IN ENGLISH ·
... Penseroso , " with a few pendant pieces ; then " Arcades " and " Comus , " both being masques ; and finally " Lycidas , " together with the other elegies of which it is This 59 - WORKS CHAPTER I EARLIEST POEMS IN ENGLISH ·
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... Lycidas . " Two of the others are sonnets , and will be appropriately treated with their fellow - poems in this form . We are thus left to take account of only four pieces , a complete and a fragmentary ode , a song , and an academical ...
... Lycidas . " Two of the others are sonnets , and will be appropriately treated with their fellow - poems in this form . We are thus left to take account of only four pieces , a complete and a fragmentary ode , a song , and an academical ...
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... Lycidas " matchless . We conclude , therefore , that " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso " are nearer to the " Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester " than they are to " Arcades " ; and if any one should argue that the mature sentiment ...
... Lycidas " matchless . We conclude , therefore , that " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso " are nearer to the " Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester " than they are to " Arcades " ; and if any one should argue that the mature sentiment ...
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... Lycidas than to " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso . " All are full of high solemnity and of that mighty vision of eternal things that makes “ Paradise Lost " so supreme in the world's poetry . The following lines from the first will ...
... Lycidas than to " L'Allegro " and " Il Penseroso . " All are full of high solemnity and of that mighty vision of eternal things that makes “ Paradise Lost " so supreme in the world's poetry . The following lines from the first will ...
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John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
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Página 273 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 275 - Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 188 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 274 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories: for never since created man...
Página 203 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste.
Página 93 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Página 261 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 248 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
Página 98 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law...
Página 36 - The tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all ages, for any, who have the power, to call to account a Tyrant or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death ; if the ordinary magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.