Criticisms on Paradise LostGinn, 1892 - 200 páginas |
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... principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections , and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been ...
... principal endeavor to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections , and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been ...
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... principal actors are not only our progeni- tors but our representatives . We have an actual interest in everything they do , and no less than our utmost happiness is concerned , and lies at stake , in all their behavior . ' Of ten ...
... principal actors are not only our progeni- tors but our representatives . We have an actual interest in everything they do , and no less than our utmost happiness is concerned , and lies at stake , in all their behavior . ' Of ten ...
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... principal thing is the fable , or plot . Glimmerings of the importance of plot Arnold seems to have had , at least towards the close of his life . In this very Address on Milton he cannot avoid confessing , " Justice is not at present ...
... principal thing is the fable , or plot . Glimmerings of the importance of plot Arnold seems to have had , at least towards the close of his life . In this very Address on Milton he cannot avoid confessing , " Justice is not at present ...
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... principal action had he related them in the same order that they happened , he cast them into the Fifth , Sixth , and Seventh Books , by way of episode to this noble poem . 15 Aristotle himself allows that Homer has nothing to 10 boast ...
... principal action had he related them in the same order that they happened , he cast them into the Fifth , Sixth , and Seventh Books , by way of episode to this noble poem . 15 Aristotle himself allows that Homer has nothing to 10 boast ...
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... principal subject . In short , this is the same kind of beauty which the critics admire in The Spanish Friar , or The Double 5 Discovery , where the two different plots look like counter- parts and copies of one another . The second ...
... principal subject . In short , this is the same kind of beauty which the critics admire in The Spanish Friar , or The Double 5 Discovery , where the two different plots look like counter- parts and copies of one another . The second ...
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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.