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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... look like counter - parts and copies of one another . The fecond qualification required in the action of an epick poem , is , that it , fhould be an entire action . An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts ; or , as ...
... look like counter - parts and copies of one another . The fecond qualification required in the action of an epick poem , is , that it , fhould be an entire action . An action is entire when it is complete in all its parts ; or , as ...
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... look into the CHARACTERS of Milton , we fhall find that he has introduced all the variety his fable was capable of receiving . The whole fpecies of mankind was in two perfons at the time , to which the fubject of his Poem is confined ...
... look into the CHARACTERS of Milton , we fhall find that he has introduced all the variety his fable was capable of receiving . The whole fpecies of mankind was in two perfons at the time , to which the fubject of his Poem is confined ...
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... look upon it as imperfect , before he has feen the whole extent of it . The fentiments in an epick poem are the thoughts , and behaviour , which the author afcribes to the perfons whom he introduces ; and are just when they 18 MR ...
... look upon it as imperfect , before he has feen the whole extent of it . The fentiments in an epick poem are the thoughts , and behaviour , which the author afcribes to the perfons whom he introduces ; and are just when they 18 MR ...
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... look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole Poem , as being nothing elfe but a string of puns , and thofe too very indif- ferent ones . " Satan beheld their plight , " And to his mates thus in derifion call'd . " O friends , why ...
... look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole Poem , as being nothing elfe but a string of puns , and thofe too very indif- ferent ones . " Satan beheld their plight , " And to his mates thus in derifion call'd . " O friends , why ...
Side 38
... looks for an hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intended ; but if he will needs fix the name of an hero upon any perfon in it , it is cer- tainly the MESSIAH who is the hero , both in the principal action , and in the ...
... looks for an hero in it , fearches for that which Milton never intended ; but if he will needs fix the name of an hero upon any perfon in it , it is cer- tainly the MESSIAH who is the hero , both in the principal action , and in the ...
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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...