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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... estimate of poetry . It seems to us the di- vinest of all arts ; for it is the breathing or expression of that principle or sentiment , which is deepest and sublimest in human nature ; we mean , of that thirst or aspiration MILTON . 9.
... estimate of poetry . It seems to us the di- vinest of all arts ; for it is the breathing or expression of that principle or sentiment , which is deepest and sublimest in human nature ; we mean , of that thirst or aspiration MILTON . 9.
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... - plaining the contradictions of human life than all others , carries us to the very foun- dation and sources of poetry . He , who cannot interpret by his own consciousness what we now have said , wants the true key 10 MILTON .
... - plaining the contradictions of human life than all others , carries us to the very foun- dation and sources of poetry . He , who cannot interpret by his own consciousness what we now have said , wants the true key 10 MILTON .
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... human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all classes of society , knits us by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic visions ...
... human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all classes of society , knits us by new ties with universal being , and , through the brightness of its prophetic visions ...
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... human genius . The two first books , by universal consent , stand pre- eminent in sublimity . Hell and hell's king have a terrible harmony , and dilate into new grandeur and awfulness , the longer we con- template them . From one ...
... human genius . The two first books , by universal consent , stand pre- eminent in sublimity . Hell and hell's king have a terrible harmony , and dilate into new grandeur and awfulness , the longer we con- template them . From one ...
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... work was to reconcile the spirit- ual properties of his supernatural beings with the human modes of existence which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The diffi- culty is too great for any genius wholly to overcome 3 * MILTON . 25.
... work was to reconcile the spirit- ual properties of his supernatural beings with the human modes of existence which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The diffi- culty is too great for any genius wholly to overcome 3 * MILTON . 25.
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Página 45 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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.
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Página 55 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Página 42 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Página 59 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
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