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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Strona 39
... reason for this precept : but I prefume it is because the mind of the reader is more awed , and elevated , when he hears Eneas or Achilles the Limbo of Vanity , ] Milton's temper perhaps occafioned him to introduce this humourous , but ...
... reason for this precept : but I prefume it is because the mind of the reader is more awed , and elevated , when he hears Eneas or Achilles the Limbo of Vanity , ] Milton's temper perhaps occafioned him to introduce this humourous , but ...
Strona 142
... reason for the Angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though , doubtlefs , the true reafon was the difficulty which the poet would have found to have fhadowed out fo mixed and complicated a ftory in vifible objects . I could ...
... reason for the Angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though , doubtlefs , the true reafon was the difficulty which the poet would have found to have fhadowed out fo mixed and complicated a ftory in vifible objects . I could ...
Strona 181
... reason , to call beauty , in a greater See his Obfervations on Poetry , 1738 , p . 132. But , as Mr. Say has obferved , an idea of eafe and celerity would be painted in the propofed correction , " And rolling towards the gate her ...
... reason , to call beauty , in a greater See his Obfervations on Poetry , 1738 , p . 132. But , as Mr. Say has obferved , an idea of eafe and celerity would be painted in the propofed correction , " And rolling towards the gate her ...
Strona 187
... reason , we love or hate . Yet it would be too daring to declare that all the celebrated adap- tations of harmony are chimerical ; that Homer had no extraordinary attention to the melody of his verse , when he defcribed a nuptial ...
... reason , we love or hate . Yet it would be too daring to declare that all the celebrated adap- tations of harmony are chimerical ; that Homer had no extraordinary attention to the melody of his verse , when he defcribed a nuptial ...
Strona 235
... reason , and thus infallibly ordains that reason , while fhe supports her sovereignty over the sensual inclinations in Man , and preserves the apple of his heart from licentious appetites , in reward of his juft obedience transforms the ...
... reason , and thus infallibly ordains that reason , while fhe supports her sovereignty over the sensual inclinations in Man , and preserves the apple of his heart from licentious appetites , in reward of his juft obedience transforms the ...
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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...