Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913 - 702 páginas |
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... passages the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excel- lence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English ...
... passages the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excel- lence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of the English ...
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... passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names . But they ...
... passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names . But they ...
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... passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the ...
... passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the ...
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... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , ' the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy ...
... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , ' the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy ...
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... passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all others writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are ...
... passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all others writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful creations . They are ...
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Página 14 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone is free : She can teach...
Página 380 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 6 - By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.
Página 34 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 43 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Página 380 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 233 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! ' He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas.
Página 18 - A philosopher might admire so noble a conception; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity, embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions,...
Página 380 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 187 - ... wife. This affectation has passed away ; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy. To our children he will be merely a writer; and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers, without regard to his rank or to his private history. That his poetry will undergo a severe sifting ; that much of what has been admired by his contemporaries will be rejected...