The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 páginas |
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Página 46
... sonnet ; and is particularly interesting for the view which it gives to us of the writer's delicacy of principle and of the high mo- tives which actuated his bosom . The reader , as I persuade myself , will thank me for communi- cating ...
... sonnet ; and is particularly interesting for the view which it gives to us of the writer's delicacy of principle and of the high mo- tives which actuated his bosom . The reader , as I persuade myself , will thank me for communi- cating ...
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... withering wind , elegantly and happily intimates the sensibility of a young writer trembling on the edge of the 51 In 1657 . 52 See Milton's 13th Sonnet . press , and fearful lest the tenderness of his blos- 62 LIFE OF MILTON .
... withering wind , elegantly and happily intimates the sensibility of a young writer trembling on the edge of the 51 In 1657 . 52 See Milton's 13th Sonnet . press , and fearful lest the tenderness of his blos- 62 LIFE OF MILTON .
Página 88
... sonnets . Of these effusions of our poet's gallantry I will not hazard an opinion . The purity of their language has been commended by Italian critics ; and for any affected and forced thoughts , which may be 77 Leonora of Este , with ...
... sonnets . Of these effusions of our poet's gallantry I will not hazard an opinion . The purity of their language has been commended by Italian critics ; and for any affected and forced thoughts , which may be 77 Leonora of Este , with ...
Página 94
... also addressed to him five sonnets and his dialogue on Friendship . Manso was one of the founders and was also pre- sident of the academy of the Oziosi at Naples . Manse pater ! jubeo longum salvere per ævum , Missus 94 LIFE OF MILTON .
... also addressed to him five sonnets and his dialogue on Friendship . Manso was one of the founders and was also pre- sident of the academy of the Oziosi at Naples . Manse pater ! jubeo longum salvere per ævum , Missus 94 LIFE OF MILTON .
Página 171
... sonnet , not adequate , perhaps , to the occasion , and certainly not comparable in poetic merit to that which he had written in the preceding year when , by the King's 58 near ap- proach , the city had been threatened with an assault ...
... sonnet , not adequate , perhaps , to the occasion , and certainly not comparable in poetic merit to that which he had written in the preceding year when , by the King's 58 near ap- proach , the city had been threatened with an assault ...
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Página 386 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 296 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 102 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página 221 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Página 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 184 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Página 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Página 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 101 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...