Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 |
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... mind it is difficult to form an eftimate : many have excelled Milton in their firft effays , who never rofe to works like Paradife Loft . At fifteen , a date which he ufes till he is fixteen , he tranflated or verfified two Pfalms , 114 ...
... mind it is difficult to form an eftimate : many have excelled Milton in their firft effays , who never rofe to works like Paradife Loft . At fifteen , a date which he ufes till he is fixteen , he tranflated or verfified two Pfalms , 114 ...
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... mind ; for he declared , that whoever became a clergyman must " fubfcribe flave , and take an oath 66 withal , which , unlefs he took with a " confcience that could retch , he must " ftraight perjure himself . He thought " it better to ...
... mind ; for he declared , that whoever became a clergyman must " fubfcribe flave , and take an oath 66 withal , which , unlefs he took with a " confcience that could retch , he must " ftraight perjure himself . He thought " it better to ...
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... mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleafing , the first requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind ...
... mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleafing , the first requifite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind ...
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... mind to invest him with military fplen- dour : " He is much mistaken , " he fays , " if there was not about this time a de- 66 66 fign of making him an adjutant- general in Sir William Waller's army . " But the new - modelling of the ...
... mind to invest him with military fplen- dour : " He is much mistaken , " he fays , " if there was not about this time a de- 66 66 fign of making him an adjutant- general in Sir William Waller's army . " But the new - modelling of the ...
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... minds of the people . He made fome Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . While he contented himfelf to write , he perhaps did only what his confcience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch ...
... minds of the people . He made fome Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . While he contented himfelf to write , he perhaps did only what his confcience dictated ; and if he did not very vigilantly watch ...
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Adam againſt angels anſwer becauſe Butler caufe cenfure Chorus Comus confidered curiofity daugh daughter defcend defcribed defign defire delight diction diſcover epick poem Euripides exerciſe fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond fecretary fecure feems fent fentiments feven fhew fhort fhould firft firſt fome fomething fometimes fpirits ftate ftill ftudied fubject fuch fuffered fufficiently fufpect fupplied fuppofed fupport fure himſelf hiſtory houfe houſe Hudibras images John Milton kindneſs king labour laft Latin leaft learning lefs Lycidas meaſure ment Milton mind moft moſt mufick muft muſt neceffary nefs never numbers obferved occafion opinion paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfons perhaps perufal philofophy pleaſe pleaſure poet poetry poffible praife praiſe profe promiſes publick publiſhed puniſh purpoſe queftion racter radife raiſed reafon refidence regicides reprefented rhyme Salmafius ſtudy thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tion underſtand univerfity uſe verfe verſe vifited Weft whofe write
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Página 154 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 140 - 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 35 - ... 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 155 - We know that they never drove a field, and that they had no flocks to batten; and though it be allowed that the representation may be allegorical, the true meaning is so uncertain and remote, that it is never sought because it cannot be known when it is found.
Página 197 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Página 29 - But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth and prove by events the reasonableness of...
Página 220 - ... and preserved 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 critic, "seems to be verse only to the eye.
Página 172 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.
Página 31 - It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars; Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil.
Página 223 - 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.