Essay on MiltonAllyn and Bacon, 1895 - 66 páginas |
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... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much com- mend , " 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 ...
... passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much com- mend , " 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 ...
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... passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the mariner mistakes for an island . When he addresses himself to battle ...
... passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the sea - monster which the mariner mistakes for an island . When he addresses himself to battle ...
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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 other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful crea- tions . They ...
... 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 other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful crea- tions . They ...
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... passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable in every page , and impart ...
... passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable in every page , and impart ...
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... passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has ...
... passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has ...
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Página 58 - ... the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which he so sternly kept with his country and with his fame.
Página 7 - Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Página xv - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell.
Página 66 - The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Página 36 - We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates ; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Eight, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning...
Página 17 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 57 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.
Página 16 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Página 26 - a land of darkness,' as darkness itself, and where the light was as darkness. The gloom of his character discolours all the passions of men and all the face of Nature, and tinges with its own livid hue the flowers of Paradise and the glories of the eternal throne.
Página 39 - ... appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. 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...