The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Bind 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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Side 41
... into the SENTIMENTS , I think they are fometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several of them too much pointed , and fome that degenerate even into puns . Of this ON THE PARADISE LOST . 41.
... into the SENTIMENTS , I think they are fometimes defective under the following heads ; first , as there are several of them too much pointed , and fome that degenerate even into puns . Of this ON THE PARADISE LOST . 41.
Side 73
... several tranfient touches of remorfe and felf - accufation : but at length he confirms himself in impenitence , and in his defign of drawing Man into his own ftate of guilt and mifery . This conflict of paffions is raised with a great ...
... several tranfient touches of remorfe and felf - accufation : but at length he confirms himself in impenitence , and in his defign of drawing Man into his own ftate of guilt and mifery . This conflict of paffions is raised with a great ...
Side 84
... Several of the French , Italian , and English poets , have given a loofe to their imaginations in the defcription of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any fo finely drawn , and fo con- formable to the notions which are ...
... Several of the French , Italian , and English poets , have given a loofe to their imaginations in the defcription of Angels : But I do not remember to have met with any fo finely drawn , and fo con- formable to the notions which are ...
Side 110
... several beafts and birds paffing in review before him is very beautiful and lively . Adam , in the next place , describes a conference which he held with his Maker upon the fubject of folitude . The poet here reprefents the Supreme ...
... several beafts and birds paffing in review before him is very beautiful and lively . Adam , in the next place , describes a conference which he held with his Maker upon the fubject of folitude . The poet here reprefents the Supreme ...
Side 204
... several words in the fame verfe with the fame letter , and even of con- tinuing the alliteration in the next verfe , may be found in the beft claffick writers . In the proofs of beautiful verfification which have been adduced , Milton ...
... several words in the fame verfe with the fame letter , and even of con- tinuing the alliteration in the next verfe , may be found in the beft claffick writers . In the proofs of beautiful verfification which have been adduced , Milton ...
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Adam Adam and Eve againſt alfo alſo ancient Andreini Angels beauty becauſe Beelzebub Belial Bentley Chaos character circumftances criticks darkneſs Death defcribed defcription defign Du Bartas earth edition epick poem expreffed expreffion fable Faer faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fhow fimilar fince fire firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpeaking fpeech ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofed fyllable Heaven Hell heroick himſelf hoft Homer Iliad infernal inftances itſelf juft laft laſt lefs likewife meaſure Milton mind moft Moloch moſt muft muſt nature NEWTON numbers obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffions Paradife Loft perfons phrafe poet poetical poetry prefent profe racters radife reader reafon reft reprefented rifing Satan ſpeaking Spenfer Spirits ſtate Taffo thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought THYER TODD tranflation uſed verfe verſe Virgil whofe words worfe
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Side 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Side 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Side 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Side 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Side 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Side 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Side 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Side 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Side 230 - ... 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...
Side 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...