Criticisms on Paradise LostGinn, 1892 - 200 páginas |
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... poetry . Nine readers out of ten feel that , as a matter of fact , their religious sentiments of ' divine love and religious fear ' are wholly ineffectual even to reconcile them to the poetical tiresomeness of the speeches in ques- tion ...
... poetry . Nine readers out of ten feel that , as a matter of fact , their religious sentiments of ' divine love and religious fear ' are wholly ineffectual even to reconcile them to the poetical tiresomeness of the speeches in ques- tion ...
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... poetry taught , which he conceives of as " that sublime art which in Aristotle's Poetics , in Horace , and the Italian com- mentaries of Castelvetro , Tasso , Mazzoni , and others , teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem , what ...
... poetry taught , which he conceives of as " that sublime art which in Aristotle's Poetics , in Horace , and the Italian com- mentaries of Castelvetro , Tasso , Mazzoni , and others , teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem , what ...
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... poetry , guiding ourselves by Aristotle's profound observation that the superiority of poetry over history consists in its possess- ing a higher truth and a higher seriousness . " Yet he comes into direct conflict with Aristotle in ...
... poetry , guiding ourselves by Aristotle's profound observation that the superiority of poetry over history consists in its possess- ing a higher truth and a higher seriousness . " Yet he comes into direct conflict with Aristotle in ...
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... poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it than if they should say Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . 6 1 Spectator , No. 267 , Jan. 5 , 1712 . 2 These titles are not ...
... poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it than if they should say Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve , Helen . 6 1 Spectator , No. 267 , Jan. 5 , 1712 . 2 These titles are not ...
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... poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Æneid in the beauties which are essential to that kind of ... poets , opens his For ' with great art ' the first edition has ' artfully . ' 2 Added in second edition . 8 For ' them ...
... poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Æneid in the beauties which are essential to that kind of ... poets , opens his For ' with great art ' the first edition has ' artfully . ' 2 Added in second edition . 8 For ' them ...
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action actors Adam and Eve Adam's added in second Addison adds Æneas Æneid allegory ancient appear Arber Aristotle Art of Poetry beautiful behold Book characters circumstances convention creation Critic on Milton Death described diction discourse divine Dryden earth English epic poem epic poetry episode fable fallen angels filled French Critic gates genius give Greek happiness Heaven Hell hero heroic poem Hesiod Homer Horace Iliad images imagination imitation incidents infernal kind language likewise Longinus look mankind manner Matthew Arnold Messiah Milton's poem mind Moloch Morley nature noble observe occasion Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parents particular passage passions perfect perspicuity poet poetical principal proper raise reader remarks represented Satan second edition sentiments Spectator speech spirit story style sublime take notice tells terror thee things thou thought thunder tion tragedy Ulysses verse Virgil wherein whole poem words ΙΟ
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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 153 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Página 49 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Página 44 - 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. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 76 - 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 placed; Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal, seemed; For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him.
Página 102 - Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things. One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure : And said, " Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world...
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 142 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers. In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?
Página 133 - My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace : both joining As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us.
Página 81 - Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How Nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweet.