John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and WorksMacmillan, 1899 - 285 páginas |
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... artistic , than those we now possess , but also of wider range in point of underlying qualities . Yet these are might - have - beens , and some of us would not have Milton other than he is , the greatest artist , man of letters , and ...
... artistic , than those we now possess , but also of wider range in point of underlying qualities . Yet these are might - have - beens , and some of us would not have Milton other than he is , the greatest artist , man of letters , and ...
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... artistic spirit England has ever borne , and it is interest- ing to speculate what a longer residence under the sky that smiles upon Naples and Florence and Venice would have meant for him ; but that was not to be . Yet we may be sure ...
... artistic spirit England has ever borne , and it is interest- ing to speculate what a longer residence under the sky that smiles upon Naples and Florence and Venice would have meant for him ; but that was not to be . Yet we may be sure ...
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... artistic balance that char- acterize Homer , and perhaps Shakspere , alone of the world's poets . No one has ever claimed such universality , such perfect bal- ance for him ; his sublime elevation of con- summate nobility being ...
... artistic balance that char- acterize Homer , and perhaps Shakspere , alone of the world's poets . No one has ever claimed such universality , such perfect bal- ance for him ; his sublime elevation of con- summate nobility being ...
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... artistic accomplish- ment . He is the master workman of our men of letters , and this genius for perfection manifested itself in all that he undertook . In him there was no haste or waste . Whether as a youthful student at school or ...
... artistic accomplish- ment . He is the master workman of our men of letters , and this genius for perfection manifested itself in all that he undertook . In him there was no haste or waste . Whether as a youthful student at school or ...
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... artistic product , or modify an old and well - known form . The idyllists of Alexandria , while preserving the metre and some other features of the older and the newer epic , nevertheless , by the fusion of new elements , produced a ...
... artistic product , or modify an old and well - known form . The idyllists of Alexandria , while preserving the metre and some other features of the older and the newer epic , nevertheless , by the fusion of new elements , produced a ...
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John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
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admirers Areopagitica artistic beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Cambridge CHAPTER character charm classical composition Comus couplet critics Dante Dante's death Defence diction Diodati dise Lost Divine Comedy drama edition effect elaborate elegiac English epic epitaph Epitaphium Damonis exquisite fact friends Garnett genius Greek Hence Homer Horton ideal Il Penseroso Iliad imagination interest Italian Johnson King L'Allegro Latin verses less lines literature Lord Brackley Lycidas lyrical lyrist Mark Pattison masque Masson matter ment metrical Milton modern nature never nobility noble Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages pastoral elegy Pattison Penseroso perhaps poem poet poet's poetic poetry political praise probably prose Puritan reader reason regard rhymes rhythm Samson Samson Agonistes seems Shakspere Shakspere's sincerity song sonnets Spenser spirit splendid stanzas style sublime supreme syntax theme thought tion ton's tracts tribute true words writing written wrote youth
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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.