The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Zväzok 4C. and J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; J. and W.T. Clarke; Longman and Company ... [and 17 others], 1826 |
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Strana i
... Poems ! ) I should hope that PARADISE REGAINED slipped accidentally out of the List : indeed what the late Mr. Warton has said of the Comus , I do not hesitate to apply to the Poem before us , and to hazard freely my unqualified opinion ...
... Poems ! ) I should hope that PARADISE REGAINED slipped accidentally out of the List : indeed what the late Mr. Warton has said of the Comus , I do not hesitate to apply to the Poem before us , and to hazard freely my unqualified opinion ...
Strana ii
... Poem is executed in so masterly a manner , that , making allowance for a certain wish to compress , which is palpably visible , very few parts of the Paradise Lost can in any respect claim a pre - eminence . - The brief description of ...
... Poem is executed in so masterly a manner , that , making allowance for a certain wish to compress , which is palpably visible , very few parts of the Paradise Lost can in any respect claim a pre - eminence . - The brief description of ...
Strana iii
... Poem . Satan's reply is eminently fine : his imputing to Belial , as the most dissolute of the fallen Angels , the amours attributed by the poets and mythologists to the Heathen gods , while it is replete with classick beauty ...
... Poem . Satan's reply is eminently fine : his imputing to Belial , as the most dissolute of the fallen Angels , the amours attributed by the poets and mythologists to the Heathen gods , while it is replete with classick beauty ...
Strana iv
... Poem advances towards the heighth of its argument . - Our Saviour's passing the night is well described . The coming on of morn is a beautiful counterpart of " night coming on in the desart , " which so finely closed the preceding Book ...
... Poem advances towards the heighth of its argument . - Our Saviour's passing the night is well described . The coming on of morn is a beautiful counterpart of " night coming on in the desart , " which so finely closed the preceding Book ...
Strana vi
... Poem , the most distinguishable and captivating feature of excel- lence is the character of Christ . This is so finely drawn , that we can scarcely forbear applying to it the language of Quintilian , respecting the Olympian Jupiter of ...
... Poem , the most distinguishable and captivating feature of excel- lence is the character of Christ . This is so finely drawn , that we can scarcely forbear applying to it the language of Quintilian , respecting the Olympian Jupiter of ...
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admiration alludes allusion ancient Angels beautiful Bethabara Book called CALTON captive cataphracts character Chor Chorus Christ Cicero Compare Comus critick Dagon dark death desart described Devil divine drama DUNSTER earth edition enemies errour Euphrates Euripides expression Faer Faery Queen father glory Greek hast hath Heathen Heaven Homer honour Ibid Jesus Jordan JORTIN king kingdom Latin Lord Manoah means Milton mind Mount NEWTON night observes oracles Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parthian passage perhaps Philistines poem poet poetry Psalm publick quæ river Roman Rome Sams Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour says scene Scripture seems sense Shakspeare shalt Sophocles speaking speech Spenser spirit Stoick Strabo strength supposed Tasso Temptation Tempter thee things thought throne THYER tion TODD tragedy verse Virgil virtue WARBURTON WARTON wilderness words writers δὲ ἐν καὶ
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Strana 52 - And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
Strana 473 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder, Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Strana 157 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Strana 481 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Strana 483 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent: His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
Strana 270 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Strana 11 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Strana 268 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Strana 62 - God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will, And sends his spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.
Strana 141 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king — Which every wise and virtuous man attains ; And who attains not ill aspires to rule Cities of men, or headstrong multitudes, 470 Subject himself to anarchy within, Or lawless passions in him, which he serves.