Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volumen1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 |
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... speech , addressed to the fun in the fourth book , were shown to him and some others as designed for the beginning of the tragedy , several years before the poem was begun : and many other passages might be produced , which plainly ap ...
... speech , addressed to the fun in the fourth book , were shown to him and some others as designed for the beginning of the tragedy , several years before the poem was begun : and many other passages might be produced , which plainly ap ...
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... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superior nature . The Angels are indeed as much diver-- fified in Milton , and diftinguished by their proper parts , as the Gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed ...
... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superior nature . The Angels are indeed as much diver-- fified in Milton , and diftinguished by their proper parts , as the Gods are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ascribed ...
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... speech , on pur- pose to palliate little errors of this nature in the writings of those au- thors who had so many greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perfpicuity were only to be confulted , the poet would have nothing ...
... speech , on pur- pose to palliate little errors of this nature in the writings of those au- thors who had so many greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perfpicuity were only to be confulted , the poet would have nothing ...
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... speech . The judgment of a poet very much discovers itself in shunning the com- mon roads of expression , without falling into fuch ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he muft not swell into a false sublime , by endevoring ...
... speech . The judgment of a poet very much discovers itself in shunning the com- mon roads of expression , without falling into fuch ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he muft not swell into a false sublime , by endevoring ...
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... speech , that fome of the greatest Ancients have been guilty When he talks of heavenly bodies , you meet with ecliptic , and eccen- tric , the trepidation , stars dropping from the zenith , rays culminating from the equator . To which ...
... speech , that fome of the greatest Ancients have been guilty When he talks of heavenly bodies , you meet with ecliptic , and eccen- tric , the trepidation , stars dropping from the zenith , rays culminating from the equator . To which ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Æneid almoſt alſo Angels anſwer battel beauty becauſe Bentley beſt call'd Cant cauſe cloſe deſcribed deſcription deſign earth Engliſh expreſs expreſſion faid Fairy Queen fame fide fight fignifies fire firſt fome fons foon fuch hath Heaven Hell Homer houſe Hume Iliad inſtances itſelf juſt king laſt Latin leſs likewiſe Loft meaſure Milton moſt muſt night obſerve occafion Ovid Paradiſe paſſage Pearce perſon pleaſed poem poet pow'r preſent publiſhed purpoſe raiſe reader reaſon repreſented reſt Richardfon riſe ſaid ſame Satan ſays ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſent ſentiments ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhape ſhe ſhort ſhould ſhow ſome ſometimes ſon ſpake ſpeaking ſpeech Spenſer Spirits ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtrength ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe ſweet Taſſo taſte thee theſe things thoſe thou thought throne Thyer tion tranſlation univerſal uſe verſe Virg Virgil whoſe word
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Página 39 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Página 33 - Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy mansion, or once more, With rallied arms, to try what may be yet Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?
Página 32 - Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página xii - ... there), met with acceptance above what was looked for; and other things, which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps...
Página 144 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Página 254 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página xciii - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Página 398 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord...
Página 307 - Unargued I obey, so GOD ordains; GOD is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.