Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from the Various Commentators, and Partly Original; Also a Memoir of His LifeS. Holdsworth, 1840 - 452 strán (strany) |
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... Italian authors , in which similitudes have been attempted to be shewn by men more ambitious of character for learning and research , than for useful and appropriate commentary ; i . e . I have discarded what is called the treasures of ...
... Italian authors , in which similitudes have been attempted to be shewn by men more ambitious of character for learning and research , than for useful and appropriate commentary ; i . e . I have discarded what is called the treasures of ...
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... I then became anxious to visit foreign parts , particularly Italy . My father gave me his per- mission ; and I left home with one servant . On my departure , the celebrated Henry Wotton , who had long been King LIFE OF MILTON . V.
... I then became anxious to visit foreign parts , particularly Italy . My father gave me his per- mission ; and I left home with one servant . On my departure , the celebrated Henry Wotton , who had long been King LIFE OF MILTON . V.
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... Italy , he gave me letters to the English merchants on my route , that they might show me any civilities in their power . " Taking ship at Nice , I arrived at Genoa ; and afterwards visited Leghorn , Pisa , and Florence . In the latter ...
... Italy , he gave me letters to the English merchants on my route , that they might show me any civilities in their power . " Taking ship at Nice , I arrived at Genoa ; and afterwards visited Leghorn , Pisa , and Florence . In the latter ...
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... Italy , I proceeded through Verona and Milan , and along the Leman Lake to Geneva . The mention of this city brings to my recollection the slandering More ; and makes me again call the Deity to witness , that in all those places where ...
... Italy , I proceeded through Verona and Milan , and along the Leman Lake to Geneva . The mention of this city brings to my recollection the slandering More ; and makes me again call the Deity to witness , that in all those places where ...
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... , -prosing or versing , but chiefly this latter , the style , by certain vital signs it had , was likely to live . But much latelier in the private academies of Italy , whither I was favoured to resort , perceiving viii LIFE OF MILTON .
... , -prosing or versing , but chiefly this latter , the style , by certain vital signs it had , was likely to live . But much latelier in the private academies of Italy , whither I was favoured to resort , perceiving viii LIFE OF MILTON .
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Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ... John Milton Úplné zobrazenie - 1840 |
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Alcinous Almighty ancient angels beast beauty behold Bentley bliss bright call'd called Cherubim Cicero classical cloud creation creatures dark death deep delight divine earth eternal Euripides evil expression eyes fair Fairy Queen Father fire fruit gates glory gods grace Greek happy hast hath heaven heavenly hell Hesiod hill Homer honour Iliad imitation Jupiter king Latin light live Lord means Milton mind morning Newton night o'er Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage Pearce poem poetic poets Psalm return'd round Satan says Scripture seem'd sense serpent Shakspeare sight simile soon spake speech spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thou thought throne tion tree trochee turn'd verb viii Virg Virgil whence winds wings words δε εν τε
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Strana 3 - Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose, or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest: Thou from the first
Strana xi - the invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren daughters; but by 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.
Strana 10 - shield, 285 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 ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His
Strana 10 - Here for his envy;—will not drive us hence : " Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, ," To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: " Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, 265 " The associates and copartners of our loss,
Strana 172 - Till, warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, " That not to know at large of things remote " From use, obscure and subtle, but to know " That which before us lies in daily life, " Is the prime wisdom: what is more, is fume, 195 " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence; " And renders us, in things that most concern,
Strana 95 - Him first, him last, him midst, and without end! " Fairest of stars! last in the train of night, " If better thou belong not to the dawn,— " Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn " With thy bright circlet,—praise him in thy sphere, 170 " While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Strana 87 - slunk;—all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Strana 77 - slunk;—all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Strana 83 - Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; " And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep " Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, " To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. " O, then, at last relent! Is there no place 80 " Left for repentance ? none for pardon left ?— " None left, but by submission ! and that word
Strana 10 - is its own place, and in itself 255 " Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. " What matter where, if I be still the same, " And what I should be,—all but less than He | " Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least " We shall be free ; th