John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and WorksMacmillan, 1899 - 285 páginas |
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... future . It was due to the fact that he was Milton and no one else that he did not succumb but became the poet of " Paradise Lost . " And as if to complete his misfortunes , the death of his wife left him the 40 JOHN MILTON.
... future . It was due to the fact that he was Milton and no one else that he did not succumb but became the poet of " Paradise Lost . " And as if to complete his misfortunes , the death of his wife left him the 40 JOHN MILTON.
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... complete victory he had gained over Sal- masius . That victory , like all partisan victo- ries , was dearly bought , for the price paid was nothing less than the consciousness that he was execrated by hundreds of thousands of his fellow ...
... complete victory he had gained over Sal- masius . That victory , like all partisan victo- ries , was dearly bought , for the price paid was nothing less than the consciousness that he was execrated by hundreds of thousands of his fellow ...
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... complete and a fragmentary ode , a song , and an academical exercise amount of verse that would be unworthy of separate treatment but for the fact that it con- tains Milton's single ode , one of the supreme specimens of its class in our ...
... complete and a fragmentary ode , a song , and an academical exercise amount of verse that would be unworthy of separate treatment but for the fact that it con- tains Milton's single ode , one of the supreme specimens of its class in our ...
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... complete unanimity among the most qualified critics . With the exception of Landor , who wrote more as a Roman , to whom Latin seemed , in the words of Dr. Garnett , to come " like the language of some prior state of existence , rather ...
... complete unanimity among the most qualified critics . With the exception of Landor , who wrote more as a Roman , to whom Latin seemed , in the words of Dr. Garnett , to come " like the language of some prior state of existence , rather ...
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... for its complete success dramatic qualities that its author could not give it . If this be a correct statement of the facts in the case , it is no wonder that critics - have not known just what to say about " Co- WORKS 109.
... for its complete success dramatic qualities that its author could not give it . If this be a correct statement of the facts in the case , it is no wonder that critics - have not known just what to say about " Co- WORKS 109.
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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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Página 59 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale, Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 178 - What supports me, dost thou ask? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe talks from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide,
Página 272 - Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Página 85 - 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
Página 259 - kings their issue guard, Mount Amara (though this by some supposed True Paradise) under the Ethiop line By Nilus' head, enclosed with shining rock, A whole day's journey high, but wide remote From this Assyrian garden, where the Fiend Saw undelighted
Página 114 - Yet art thou not inglorious in thy fate; For so Apollo, with unweeting hand, Whilom did slay his dearly-loved mate, Young Hyacinth born on Eurotas' strand, Young Hyacinth the pride of Spartan land; But then transformed him to a purple flower; Alack! that so to change thee Winter had no power.
Página 49 - his clear sprite yet reigns o'er earth the third among the sons of light.” As for Landor, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, and Swinburne, their direct or indirect debt to him is plain to every student. With regard to his prose,
Página 29 - exactly two weeks Milton had published his pamphlet “The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,” in which he maintained the right of “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.” This was a bold and certainly expeditious
Página 90 - But else in deep of night, when drowsiness Hath locked up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Sirens harmony. That sit upon the nine infolded spheres. And sing to those that hold the vital
Página 127 - It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine,