Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... fays he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propen- 66 fity of nature , he might leave fome- " thing fo written to after - times , as they " fhould not willingly let it dic . " It appears , in all his ...
... fays he , " I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propen- 66 fity of nature , he might leave fome- " thing fo written to after - times , as they " fhould not willingly let it dic . " It appears , in all his ...
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... fays , inferior to the Prelates in learning . Hall bishop of Norwich had pub- lifhed an Humble Remonftrance , in de- fence of Epifcopacy ; to which , in 1641 , fix minifters , of whofe names the first letters made the celebrated word ...
... fays , inferior to the Prelates in learning . Hall bishop of Norwich had pub- lifhed an Humble Remonftrance , in de- fence of Epifcopacy ; to which , in 1641 , fix minifters , of whofe names the first letters made the celebrated word ...
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... that may be of ufe and honour to his country . " This , " fays he , " is " not to be obtained but by devout 66 prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can " enrich " enrich with all utterance and know- " ledge , 34 1 MILTO N.
... that may be of ufe and honour to his country . " This , " fays he , " is " not to be obtained but by devout 66 prayer to that Eternal Spirit that can " enrich " enrich with all utterance and know- " ledge , 34 1 MILTO N.
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... fays he , " with " this crime , it may come upon me with " tenfold fhame . " The ftile of his piece is rough , and fuch perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justifies , by great ex- d3 amples , amples , in a long ...
... fays he , " with " this crime , it may come upon me with " tenfold fhame . " The ftile of his piece is rough , and fuch perhaps was that of his antagonist . This roughness he justifies , by great ex- d3 amples , amples , in a long ...
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... fays Wood , " whether " approving the doctrine , or not favour- ing his accufers , did foon difmifs " him . " 66 There feems not to have been much written against him , nor any thing by any writer of eminence . The antago- nift that ...
... fays Wood , " whether " approving the doctrine , or not favour- ing his accufers , did foon difmifs " him . " 66 There feems not to have been much written against him , nor any thing by any writer of eminence . The antago- nift that ...
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Página 146 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Página 203 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Página 120 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Página 199 - ... by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers, of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank 'verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to the eye.
Página 17 - ... 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...
Página 203 - ... he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Página 136 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Página 123 - He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected, that his predominant desire was to destroy, rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty, as repugnance to authority.
Página 153 - Milton must be confessed to have equalled every other poet. He has involved in his account of the Fall of Man the events...
Página 152 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.