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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... learned critick acutely adds , " With what propriety then could the fun's rifing in Aries , when Satan met Sin and Death at the brink of Chaos , be mentioned , B. x . 329 ? and , if it was ftill the night after the Fall , how could Adam ...
... learned critick acutely adds , " With what propriety then could the fun's rifing in Aries , when Satan met Sin and Death at the brink of Chaos , be mentioned , B. x . 329 ? and , if it was ftill the night after the Fall , how could Adam ...
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... learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear particular in any of my opinions , and incline to thofe who judge the most advantageously of the author . It is requifite that the ...
... learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear particular in any of my opinions , and incline to thofe who judge the most advantageously of the author . It is requifite that the ...
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... learned languages . Above all , I would have them well verfed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he understands a critick , when in re- ality he does not comprehend his meaning . It is in ...
... learned languages . Above all , I would have them well verfed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he understands a critick , when in re- ality he does not comprehend his meaning . It is in ...
Strona 33
... learned the art of diftinguishing between words and things , and of ranging his thoughts and setting them in proper lights , whatever notions he may have , will lofe himself in confufion and obfcurity . I might further obferve that ...
... learned the art of diftinguishing between words and things , and of ranging his thoughts and setting them in proper lights , whatever notions he may have , will lofe himself in confufion and obfcurity . I might further obferve that ...
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... learned call technical words , or terms of art . It is one of the greatest beauties of poetry , to make hard things intelligible , and to deliver what is ab- ftrufe of itself in fuch eafy language as may be understood by ordinary ...
... learned call technical words , or terms of art . It is one of the greatest beauties of poetry , to make hard things intelligible , and to deliver what is ab- ftrufe of itself in fuch eafy language as may be understood by ordinary ...
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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...