Criticisms on Paradise LostGinn, 1892 - 200 páginas |
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... ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they are easily remarked , and generally censured . " Though it is true he adds , " And at last bear so little proportion to the ...
... ancients ; his unnecessary and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention , because they are easily remarked , and generally censured . " Though it is true he adds , " And at last bear so little proportion to the ...
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... ancient compositions known as epics , is allowed by Arnold ; for does he not say , " The great merit of Johnson's criticism on Milton is that from rhetoric and convention it is free " ? And does not Johnson recognize this framework ...
... ancient compositions known as epics , is allowed by Arnold ; for does he not say , " The great merit of Johnson's criticism on Milton is that from rhetoric and convention it is free " ? And does not Johnson recognize this framework ...
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... ancient or modern , having laid down rules to circumscribe the action of an epic poem with any determined number of years , days , or hours . This piece of criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost shall be carried on in the following ...
... ancient or modern , having laid down rules to circumscribe the action of an epic poem with any determined number of years , days , or hours . This piece of criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost shall be carried on in the following ...
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... ancient , Homer only excepted . It is impossible for the imagina- tion of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his First , Second , 3 and Sixth Books . The Seventh , which describes the ...
... ancient , Homer only excepted . It is impossible for the imagina- tion of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his First , Second , 3 and Sixth Books . The Seventh , which describes the ...
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... ancients , and Monsieur Perrault among the moderns , pushed their ridicule very far upon 20 him on account of some such sentiments . There is no blemish to be observed in Virgil under this head , and but a very few in Milton . 4 5 I ...
... ancients , and Monsieur Perrault among the moderns , pushed their ridicule very far upon 20 him on account of some such sentiments . There is no blemish to be observed in Virgil under this head , and but a very few in Milton . 4 5 I ...
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Página 81 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 44 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 149 - Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on— In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Página 72 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 144 - Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Página 75 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Página 149 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Página 46 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Página 124 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 142 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?