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, Том 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... subject of his Poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two actors of a fhadowy and fictitious nature , in the perfons of Sin and Death ; by which means he has wrought into the body of his fable ...
... subject of his Poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two actors of a fhadowy and fictitious nature , in the perfons of Sin and Death ; by which means he has wrought into the body of his fable ...
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... subject of derifion . A man , who cannot write with wit on a proper subject , is dull and ftupid ; but one , who fhows it in an improper place , is as impertinent and abfurd . Besides , a man , who has the gift of ridicule , is apt to ...
... subject of derifion . A man , who cannot write with wit on a proper subject , is dull and ftupid ; but one , who fhows it in an improper place , is as impertinent and abfurd . Besides , a man , who has the gift of ridicule , is apt to ...
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... subject of his Poem in the following verfes : " Of Man's firft difobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste " Brought death into the world and all our woe , " With lofs of Eden , till one greater Man ...
... subject of his Poem in the following verfes : " Of Man's firft difobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste " Brought death into the world and all our woe , " With lofs of Eden , till one greater Man ...
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... subject , and by leading him into other agreeable images . Homer excelled in this particular , whofe comparisons abound with fuch images of nature as are proper to relieve and diverfify his fubjects . He conti- nually inftructs the ...
... subject , and by leading him into other agreeable images . Homer excelled in this particular , whofe comparisons abound with fuch images of nature as are proper to relieve and diverfify his fubjects . He conti- nually inftructs the ...
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... subject after me , may find feveral beauties in Milton , which I have not taken notice of . I muft likewife obferve , that as the greatest mafters of critical learning dif- fer among one another , as to fome particular points in an ...
... subject after me , may find feveral beauties in Milton , which I have not taken notice of . I muft likewife obferve , that as the greatest mafters of critical learning dif- fer among one another , as to fome particular points in an ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...