Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... ' - Cowper's translation Poem to his tutor · 14 CHAPTER III . College poetry continued - ' Ad Patrem ' - Cowper's transla- tion - Elegy to Deodate - Deodate family - Latin epistles- ' In adventum Veris'- Seasons of composition - Pride of.
... ' - Cowper's translation Poem to his tutor · 14 CHAPTER III . College poetry continued - ' Ad Patrem ' - Cowper's transla- tion - Elegy to Deodate - Deodate family - Latin epistles- ' In adventum Veris'- Seasons of composition - Pride of.
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... Critical analysis , with an inten- tion to prove that it is not inferior in genius and excellence to ' Paradise Lost , ' but in fable - Want of fable in ' Cowper's Task - in Cowley's works - Milton the earliest English xiv CONTENTS .
... Critical analysis , with an inten- tion to prove that it is not inferior in genius and excellence to ' Paradise Lost , ' but in fable - Want of fable in ' Cowper's Task - in Cowley's works - Milton the earliest English xiv CONTENTS .
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... tion of Charles II . The days of chivalry were gone ; and the picturesque requires a nicety of eye and brightness of fancy , which are not the endowments of the many . The lovers of political liberty , rational as well as irrational ...
... tion of Charles II . The days of chivalry were gone ; and the picturesque requires a nicety of eye and brightness of fancy , which are not the endowments of the many . The lovers of political liberty , rational as well as irrational ...
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... tion ; but what he possessed in love and admira- tion he wanted in power . His genius was not strong ; his style was diffuse and languid ; and his constant use of superlative epithets of a vague and trite character gave a sickly cast to ...
... tion ; but what he possessed in love and admira- tion he wanted in power . His genius was not strong ; his style was diffuse and languid ; and his constant use of superlative epithets of a vague and trite character gave a sickly cast to ...
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... tion , and all that exercises and elevates the under- standing and it was as profound in learning as original and brilliant in native faculties of the in- tellect but there was the leaven of an unholy : VOL . I. A and factious spirit ...
... tion , and all that exercises and elevates the under- standing and it was as profound in learning as original and brilliant in native faculties of the in- tellect but there was the leaven of an unholy : VOL . I. A and factious spirit ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.