Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 páginas |
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... gifted minds of his own and former times . The book derives its chief interest from its author , and accordingly there seems to be a propriety in introducing our remarks upon it with some notice of the character of Milton . We are not ...
... gifted minds of his own and former times . The book derives its chief interest from its author , and accordingly there seems to be a propriety in introducing our remarks upon it with some notice of the character of Milton . We are not ...
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... gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul . It indeed por- trays , with terrible ...
... gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul . It indeed por- trays , with terrible ...
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... is the high office of the bard to detect this divine element among the grosser la- bors and pleasures of our earthly being . The present life is not wholly prosaic , pre- cise , tame , and finite . To the gifted MILTON . 15.
... is the high office of the bard to detect this divine element among the grosser la- bors and pleasures of our earthly being . The present life is not wholly prosaic , pre- cise , tame , and finite . To the gifted MILTON . 15.
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... gifted eye , it abounds in the poetic . The affections which spread beyond ourselves and stretch far into futurity ; the workings of mighty passions , which seem to arm the soul with an almost superhuman energy ; the innocent and irre ...
... gifted eye , it abounds in the poetic . The affections which spread beyond ourselves and stretch far into futurity ; the workings of mighty passions , which seem to arm the soul with an almost superhuman energy ; the innocent and irre ...
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... gifted reader to clothe them with the same radiant hues under which they ap- peared to his own . This attribute of power is universally felt to characterize Milton . His sublimity is in every man's mouth . Is it felt that his poet- ry ...
... gifted reader to clothe them with the same radiant hues under which they ap- peared to his own . This attribute of power is universally felt to characterize Milton . His sublimity is in every man's mouth . Is it felt that his poet- ry ...
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