The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Sketches, and a Rapid View of the Characteristic Attributes of EachA. & C. Black, 1850 - 544 páginas |
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... MILTON , born 1608 , died 1674 From the Annus Mirabilis - The Re- edification of London 238 • The Nativity 175 179 L'Allegro 183 Ode to the Memory of Mrs Anne Kil- ligrew . 239 From Il Penseroso 186 From Lycidas 189 From Paradise Lost ...
... MILTON , born 1608 , died 1674 From the Annus Mirabilis - The Re- edification of London 238 • The Nativity 175 179 L'Allegro 183 Ode to the Memory of Mrs Anne Kil- ligrew . 239 From Il Penseroso 186 From Lycidas 189 From Paradise Lost ...
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... Milton's Paradise Lost ; and the Hero - poem Beowulph , both which may be reckoned to ascend to the dignity of Epic . The line of Saxon poets reaches from Caedmon in the seventh century , to a period below Alfred , himself a poet , in ...
... Milton's Paradise Lost ; and the Hero - poem Beowulph , both which may be reckoned to ascend to the dignity of Epic . The line of Saxon poets reaches from Caedmon in the seventh century , to a period below Alfred , himself a poet , in ...
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... Milton . " — " Homer is a short expression for the heroic or mythic epoch , taken in its sublimer and more lovely manifestation ; Virgil is the incarnation of the power , grandeur , and development of the nationality of empire ; Dante ...
... Milton . " — " Homer is a short expression for the heroic or mythic epoch , taken in its sublimer and more lovely manifestation ; Virgil is the incarnation of the power , grandeur , and development of the nationality of empire ; Dante ...
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... Milton had unstrung his harp at the commencement of the struggle , and , when its note again rung , it was in the midst of a new phase of literature . The two par- inferior in intensity to the credulous and simple awe with which the ...
... Milton had unstrung his harp at the commencement of the struggle , and , when its note again rung , it was in the midst of a new phase of literature . The two par- inferior in intensity to the credulous and simple awe with which the ...
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... Milton , is of no mean merit : most of the passages from the period in the following selections are examples of this . For the sacred poetry of this cen- tury , see an interesting article on the subject in Blackwood's Magazine , No. 241 ...
... Milton , is of no mean merit : most of the passages from the period in the following selections are examples of this . For the sacred poetry of this cen- tury , see an interesting article on the subject in Blackwood's Magazine , No. 241 ...
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ancient Banquo beauty behold Ben Jonson blood breath bright Brutus Cæsar Canterbury Tales century Chaucer court death delight dost doth dreadful Dryden earth English English poetry eternal eyes fair fame fate father fear flowers genius Giles Fletcher give gold golden grace Greek hand hath head heart Heaven Hell hence honour Hudibras James Johnson Julius Cæsar king Knight's Tale Lady language light literature live look Lord Lycidas Macb Macbeth Macd Milton mind MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES muse nature never night noble numbers o'er Othello Ovid Pierre Pindar poem poet poetical poetry praise Queen reign satire Scotland Shakespeare sleep song soul sound speak spirit sweet Swift tell temple Thammuz Thane thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought throne tongue unto Vent verse Warton word writers youth
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Página 114 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Página 522 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Página 103 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Página 114 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 103 - I have pass'da miserable night, So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days : So full of dismal terror was the time.
Página 186 - Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 365 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 174 - For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould...
Página 242 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain : Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Página 200 - Though hard and rare : 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.