The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Tom 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... creation's day To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . Pardon me , mighty Poet , nor despise My caufelefs , yet not impious , furmife . But I am now convinc'd , and none will dare Within thy labours to pretend a share . Thou haft ...
... creation's day To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . Pardon me , mighty Poet , nor despise My caufelefs , yet not impious , furmife . But I am now convinc'd , and none will dare Within thy labours to pretend a share . Thou haft ...
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... is the action he propofed to celebrate ; and as for thofe great actions , which preceded in point of time , the battle of the angels , and the creation of the world , ( which would have entirely destroyed the 4 MR . ADDISON'S CRITICISM.
... is the action he propofed to celebrate ; and as for thofe great actions , which preceded in point of time , the battle of the angels , and the creation of the world , ( which would have entirely destroyed the 4 MR . ADDISON'S CRITICISM.
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... creation of the world , is likewife wonderfully fublime , though not fo apt to ftir up emotion in the mind of the reader , nor confequently fo perfect in the epick way of writing , because it is filled with lefs action . Let the ...
... creation of the world , is likewife wonderfully fublime , though not fo apt to ftir up emotion in the mind of the reader , nor confequently fo perfect in the epick way of writing , because it is filled with lefs action . Let the ...
Strona 45
... creation of the world , is very properly made to the Mufe who infpired Mofes in thofe Books from whence our author drew his fubject , and to the Holy Spirit who is therein re- prefented as operating after a particular manner in the ...
... creation of the world , is very properly made to the Mufe who infpired Mofes in thofe Books from whence our author drew his fubject , and to the Holy Spirit who is therein re- prefented as operating after a particular manner in the ...
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... Creation of Man . No- thing could fhow more the dignity of the fpecies , than this tradition which ran of them before their exiftence . They are reprefented to have been the talk of Heaven before they were created . Virgil , in ...
... Creation of Man . No- thing could fhow more the dignity of the fpecies , than this tradition which ran of them before their exiftence . They are reprefented to have been the talk of Heaven before they were created . Virgil , in ...
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Strona 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Strona 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Strona 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Strona 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Strona 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Strona 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Strona 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Strona 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Strona 230 - ... 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...
Strona 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...