The Poet's Charter: Or, The Book of JobJ. Lane, 1903 - 295 páginas |
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... Paradise Lost is no mere academic exercise ; it is an inquiry into a system of logic as rigid as the Pons Asinorum . The whole story of the siege and capture of the Garden of Eden is a preparation for the successful assault on Paradise ...
... Paradise Lost is no mere academic exercise ; it is an inquiry into a system of logic as rigid as the Pons Asinorum . The whole story of the siege and capture of the Garden of Eden is a preparation for the successful assault on Paradise ...
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... Paradise Regained is less read than Paradise Lost ; and for the same reason , -that the human mind has a natural love of gloom and horror.1 1 I regret that this is not the occasion on which to pause over the rhythm of Paradise Regained ...
... Paradise Regained is less read than Paradise Lost ; and for the same reason , -that the human mind has a natural love of gloom and horror.1 1 I regret that this is not the occasion on which to pause over the rhythm of Paradise Regained ...
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... Paradise Lost , of which neither in the Hebrew nor the Christian Scriptures is there any trace , but the fall of Byron's Heaven and Earth , which took place when the Heavenly Watchers descended on the snow - clad top of Hermon , the ...
... Paradise Lost , of which neither in the Hebrew nor the Christian Scriptures is there any trace , but the fall of Byron's Heaven and Earth , which took place when the Heavenly Watchers descended on the snow - clad top of Hermon , the ...
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... Paradise Lost , of the events culminating in the fall of man . He describes the rebellion and expulsion from Heaven of the proud angels ; the creation of the earth to fill the void left in the system of the universe ; the debate of the ...
... Paradise Lost , of the events culminating in the fall of man . He describes the rebellion and expulsion from Heaven of the proud angels ; the creation of the earth to fill the void left in the system of the universe ; the debate of the ...
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... Paradise which the good ( 2 ) quotes Liber de Morte Mosis : " Aza et Azael de cælo descendentes viam suam corruperunt " ; for this very commentary of Grotius is quoted by Milton in his Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce . 1 Courthope's ...
... Paradise which the good ( 2 ) quotes Liber de Morte Mosis : " Aza et Azael de cælo descendentes viam suam corruperunt " ; for this very commentary of Grotius is quoted by Milton in his Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce . 1 Courthope's ...
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A. H. Bullen angels argument artistic authority beauty Bible Book of Enoch Book of Job called cause CHAPTER Christian common Cox's Commentary Dean Stanley divine doctrine doubt drama earth Eliphaz emotion English Poetry Epistle of Jude Essays eternal evil existence eyes fact false fancy friends Genius God's heaven Hebrew heresy holy human Ibid idea imagination intellect Job's Kegan Paul knowledge language live Love Lucifer lyrical Macmillan Marius the Epicurean Marriage matter Matthew Arnold means Milton mind mystery nature never opinion Paradise Lost passage passion perhaps poem poet poetic possess Professor Moulton Prometheus prophet quoted reason recognised Religion religious reverence sacred Sartor Resartus Satan Science Scriptures sense song soul speak speech spirit suffering supposed surely thee things thou thought tion true truth unto verse Walter Pater Westermarck wicked William Blake wisdom woman women words worship write
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Página 81 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! That I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
Página 78 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Página 35 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Página 262 - Yet toil on, toil on: thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread. A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life.
Página 144 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Página xx - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of grammar, but that sublime art which in Aristotle's Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian Commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a Lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Página 188 - ... forms of worship; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of longstanding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes, the greatness and littleness of man, his farreaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of...
Página 65 - Why am I mock'd with death; and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Página 48 - Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or Reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.
Página 79 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.