Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost. From 'The Spectator.' 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son., 1868 - 152 páginas |
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Action Adam Adam and Eve Æneas Æneid alſo Angels appear Ariftotle aſtoniſhing Author Battel beautiful becauſe Characters Circumſtances Converſation Creation Criticiſm Criticks deſcribed Deſcription diſcover Divine Earth EDWARD ARBER Eneid Epic Poem Epic Poetry Epiſode Expreffion exquifitely Fable fame feems felf feveral fhall fhew fhort firft Firſt Book firſt Parents fome ftill fuch fufficient fuitable give greateſt Greatneſs Heaven Hell Heroic Poem himſelf Hiſtory Homer Iliad Imagination Infernal Inftances juſt kind laft laſt likewife London Mankind Maſter meaſure Meffiah Milton Mind moft moſt muſt Nature obferve occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paper Paradife Loft particular Paſſage Perfons Phraſes pleaſed Poet Poetical Poetry preſent racters raiſed Reader Reaſon repreſented rifes ſame Satan ſecond ſee ſeem ſelf Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſpeaking SPECTATOR Speech Spirit Sublime ſuch take notice thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion uſe Virgil Viſion wherein whole Poem
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Página 85 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 4 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 4 - Memory and her siren 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 137 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 3 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 141 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Página 53 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 3 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Página 104 - Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice. Him all his train Follow'd in bright procession to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might.
Página 4 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church...