Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost : from The Spectator, 31 December 1711-3 May 1712Constable, 1868 - 152 |
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... short Fables , and their Similes fo many fhort Episodes ; to which you may add , if you pleafe , that their Metaphors are fo many fhort Similes . If the Reader confiders the Comparisons in the First Book of Milton , of the Sun in an ...
... short Fables , and their Similes fo many fhort Episodes ; to which you may add , if you pleafe , that their Metaphors are fo many fhort Similes . If the Reader confiders the Comparisons in the First Book of Milton , of the Sun in an ...
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... short , as the Criticks have remarked , that in those Poems , wherein Shepherds are Actors , the Thoughts ought always to take a Tincture from the Woods , Fields , and Rivers ; so we may observe , that our first Parents fel- dom lofe ...
... short , as the Criticks have remarked , that in those Poems , wherein Shepherds are Actors , the Thoughts ought always to take a Tincture from the Woods , Fields , and Rivers ; so we may observe , that our first Parents fel- dom lofe ...
Strona 93
... short , the Poet never mentions any thing of this Battel but in fuch Images of Greatness and Terrour , as are suitable to the Subject . Among feveral others , I cannot forbear quoting that Paffage where the Power , who is defcrib'd as ...
... short , the Poet never mentions any thing of this Battel but in fuch Images of Greatness and Terrour , as are suitable to the Subject . Among feveral others , I cannot forbear quoting that Paffage where the Power , who is defcrib'd as ...
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... short Description , improved by the Imagination of Claudian , without its Puerilities . I need not point out the Description of the fallen Angels , feeing the Promontories hanging over their Heads in fuch a dreadful manner , with the ...
... short Description , improved by the Imagination of Claudian , without its Puerilities . I need not point out the Description of the fallen Angels , feeing the Promontories hanging over their Heads in fuch a dreadful manner , with the ...
Strona 108
... short , he has illustrated , by numberless and incontestable Instances , that Divine Wisdom , which the Son of Sirach has fo nobly afcribed to the Supreme Being in his Forma- tion of the World , when he tells us , that He created her ...
... short , he has illustrated , by numberless and incontestable Instances , that Divine Wisdom , which the Son of Sirach has fo nobly afcribed to the Supreme Being in his Forma- tion of the World , when he tells us , that He created her ...
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Action Adam Adam and Eve Æneas Æneid Allegory alſo Angels appear Ariftotle aſtoniſhing Author Battel beautiful becauſe Characters Circumſtances Converſation Creation Criticiſm Criticks deſcribed Deſcription Deſign Difcourfe diſcover Divine Earth Eneid Epic Poem Epic Poetry Epiſode Expreffion Fable fame fecond feems felf feveral fhall fhew fhort firft Firſt Book firſt Parents fome fuch fufficient fuitable give greateſt Greatneſs Heaven Hell Heroic Poem himſelf Hiſtory Homer Iliad Imagination Infernal Inftances juſt laſt likewiſe Majefty Mankind Maſter meaſure Meffiah Milton Mind moſt muſt Nature noble obferved occafion Ovid Paffage paffed Paffion Paper Paradife Loft particular Paſſage Perfons pleaſed Pleaſure Poet Poetical Poetry preſent racters raiſed Reader Reaſon repreſented rifes riſes ſame Satan ſee ſelf Sentiments ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR Speech Spirit ſtill Sublime ſuch take notice thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tion uſe Verſe Virgil Viſion wherein whole Poem