The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, المجلد 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... of Milton is sufficiently novel from this cause . It cannot indeed be denied that he supplies several observations not less just than forcible ; but he is sometimes sophistical , usually harsh and caustic ; praise PREFACE . 25.
... of Milton is sufficiently novel from this cause . It cannot indeed be denied that he supplies several observations not less just than forcible ; but he is sometimes sophistical , usually harsh and caustic ; praise PREFACE . 25.
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... less satisfaction and entertainment than former ac- counts , the reader must judge and determine : but it has been my study and endeavour , as in the notes to comprise the flower of all other notes , so in the life to include the ...
... less satisfaction and entertainment than former ac- counts , the reader must judge and determine : but it has been my study and endeavour , as in the notes to comprise the flower of all other notes , so in the life to include the ...
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... less excellent in their kind , and if they have not that sublimity and majesty , are at least equally beautiful and pleasing to the imagination . And the same method that was taken in the publication of the Paradise Lost , is pursued in ...
... less excellent in their kind , and if they have not that sublimity and majesty , are at least equally beautiful and pleasing to the imagination . And the same method that was taken in the publication of the Paradise Lost , is pursued in ...
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... less common words occasionally explained in the notes . The Latin poems I cannot say are equal to several of his English compositions : but yet they are not without their merit ; they are not a cento like most of the modern Latin poetry ...
... less common words occasionally explained in the notes . The Latin poems I cannot say are equal to several of his English compositions : but yet they are not without their merit ; they are not a cento like most of the modern Latin poetry ...
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... less desultory , less familiar , and less em- barrassed with a frequent recurrence of periods . Ovid is at once rapid and abrupt . He wants dignity : he has too much conversation in his manner of telling a story . Prolixity of paragraph ...
... less desultory , less familiar , and less em- barrassed with a frequent recurrence of periods . Ovid is at once rapid and abrupt . He wants dignity : he has too much conversation in his manner of telling a story . Prolixity of paragraph ...
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Adam Addison Æneid ancient angels Anne Milton appears arms b. i. cant battle beauty Belial Bentley Bentley reads better bright called Chaos Chimæra Comus darkness death divine doth earth edition eternal expression Faery Queen Father fire gates glory gods golden hast hath heaven hell hill Homer honour host Hume Iliad imitation infernal Italian John Milton King Latin learned light likewise living Lord manner Milton Moloch morning night notes o'er observes Ovid pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage Pearce poem poet poetical poetry pow'r printed quæ reader remarks Richardson Samson Agonistes Satan says Scripture seem'd seems sense Shakespeare shew sight Smectymnuus spake speaking speech Spenser spirit stars stood sublime Tasso thee things thou thought throne Thyer tion Todd translation verse Virg Virgil Warton wings word δε
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الصفحة 14 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
الصفحة 25 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
الصفحة 263 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
الصفحة 27 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
الصفحة 160 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
الصفحة 127 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
الصفحة 165 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
الصفحة 141 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
الصفحة 308 - 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, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
الصفحة 334 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.