Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... Latin poetry - ' In Quintum Novembris ' - ' In Obitum Præsulis Eliensis ' - Naturam non pati senium ' - Cowper's translation Poem to his tutor · 14 CHAPTER III . College poetry continued - ' Ad Patrem ' - Cowper's transla- tion - Elegy ...
... Latin poetry - ' In Quintum Novembris ' - ' In Obitum Præsulis Eliensis ' - Naturam non pati senium ' - Cowper's translation Poem to his tutor · 14 CHAPTER III . College poetry continued - ' Ad Patrem ' - Cowper's transla- tion - Elegy ...
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... Latin page 24 CHAPTER IV . Departure from College - ' L'Allegro ' and ' Il Penseroso'- From whence suggested - Character of these compositions- Opinions of Warton and Johnson - Comments 33 CHAPTER V. ' Lycidas , ' and ' Epitaphium ...
... Latin page 24 CHAPTER IV . Departure from College - ' L'Allegro ' and ' Il Penseroso'- From whence suggested - Character of these compositions- Opinions of Warton and Johnson - Comments 33 CHAPTER V. ' Lycidas , ' and ' Epitaphium ...
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... Latin letter to Heimbach 154 CHAPTER XV . Sale of Paradise Lost ' - Johnson's remarks - Contempo- raries of Milton - Dryden's opinion of Paradise Lost ' - Folio editions in 1688 and 1695 - Milton's History of England xii CONTENTS .
... Latin letter to Heimbach 154 CHAPTER XV . Sale of Paradise Lost ' - Johnson's remarks - Contempo- raries of Milton - Dryden's opinion of Paradise Lost ' - Folio editions in 1688 and 1695 - Milton's History of England xii CONTENTS .
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... Latin poems ercises , & c . College ex- • 183 CHAPTER XVIII . Observations on Milton's poetry continued - Era of his writings - State of literature in Elizabeth's reign - Milton's inventiveness - His devotion to the Muse - Spenser ...
... Latin poems ercises , & c . College ex- • 183 CHAPTER XVIII . Observations on Milton's poetry continued - Era of his writings - State of literature in Elizabeth's reign - Milton's inventiveness - His devotion to the Muse - Spenser ...
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... Latin poems , with his notes , had something more of charm ; but he could not hit Milton's style ; and the notes are neither numerous nor profound . Todd has performed all he undertook to per- form the toil of his researches has been ...
... Latin poems , with his notes , had something more of charm ; but he could not hit Milton's style ; and the notes are neither numerous nor profound . Todd has performed all he undertook to per- form the toil of his researches has been ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison admiration ancient Andrew Marvell angels appear bard beautiful blind character Comus Countess of Derby critic Dante daughter delight divine Dryden elegy English enthusiasm epic exalted fable fancy father fiction Forest-hill genius glory grand grandeur Gray hath heart Heaven holy Homer honour human Il Penseroso imagery images imagination intellectual invention J. M. W. TURNER John Milton Johnson Joseph Warton King L'Allegro labour language Latin learning less liberty lived lofty Lycidas majesty ment mind moral Muse native nature never noble observation opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages passions perhaps person Petrarch picturesque poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Powell praise Puritan racter reader rich Samson Agonistes says seems sentiment Shakspeare solemn Sonnets Spenser spirit style sublime Tasso taste thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth verse virtue vulgar Warton wisdom words writing
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Página 210 - 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.
Página 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Página 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Página 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Página 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.