...himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity and sympathy." Milton, he goes on to explain, "knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...concurring or the perplexity of contending passions." He knew human nature only in the gross. He treated nothing less momentous than the fortunes of the race....

...HI 414). ') Sgl. 6iermit gobnfon, bcr bon TOtlton faflt: He had read much, and knew what books can teach: but had mingled little in the world, and was...deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer (Lives. II 17'Л A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life and : ..The proper study...

...III 414). s ) 33g[. permit goljnfon, ber bon 2Шоп fagt: He had read much, and knew what books can teach; but had mingled little in the world, and was...deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer (Lives, II 172). A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life and : „The proper study...

...THE PLACE OF MILTON AS A POET' Samuel Johnson Milton would not have excelled in dramatic writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...studied the shades of character, nor the combinations of 1 From The Lives of the Most Eminent, English Poets. concurring, nor the perplexity of contending passions....

...PLACE OF MIT-TON AS A POET 1 Samuel Johnson Milton would not have excelled in dramatic writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...studied the shades of character, nor the combinations of , From The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. concurring, nor the perplexity of contending passions....

...had mingled little in the world, and was deficient in the knowledge which experience must oonfer. He knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...concurring or the perplexity of contending passions. 125 ) „Books," sagt Bacon, „can never teach the use of books." The student must learn by commerce...

...he can be engaged; beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself. Milton knew human nature only in the gross, and had...concurring or the perplexity of contending passions' (Preface to Shakespeare). This is certainly not true of Virgil; so far from it, that even in the council...

...attention which a well connected plan produces. Milton would not have excelled in dramatic writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer. Thru all his greater works there prevails a uniform peculiarity of diction, a mode and cast of expression...

...attention which a well-connected plan produces. Milton would not have excelled in dramatic writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer. Through all his greater works there prevails an uniform peculiarity of diction, a mode and cast of...

...attention which a well-connected plan produces. Milton would not have excelled in dramatick writing; he knew human nature only in the gross, and had never...deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer. Through all his greater works there prevails an uniform peculiarity of Diction, a mode and cast of...