Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... gossiping style of old Isaac Walton ! Toland took up the subject , and collected much useful matter ; but he was a heavy writer , who never enjoyed much favour with the public . The Life by Fenton the poet is too meagre to satisfy.
... gossiping style of old Isaac Walton ! Toland took up the subject , and collected much useful matter ; but he was a heavy writer , who never enjoyed much favour with the public . The Life by Fenton the poet is too meagre to satisfy.
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... matter of his criticisms is worse than his style . He affects to be humorous or witty , where he is often only pompous and malicious . The obser- vation made by Coleridge in his ' Table - Talk , ' on the style of his Rambler , ' is ...
... matter of his criticisms is worse than his style . He affects to be humorous or witty , where he is often only pompous and malicious . The obser- vation made by Coleridge in his ' Table - Talk , ' on the style of his Rambler , ' is ...
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... matter - of - fact taste , they nurse themselves in it with a triumphant scorn of their opponents . But what can rich and ac- complished minds say of him , who could find no true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton ...
... matter - of - fact taste , they nurse themselves in it with a triumphant scorn of their opponents . But what can rich and ac- complished minds say of him , who could find no true poetry in Lycidas ? Johnson's political hatred to Milton ...
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... matter , the imagery , the language , the rhythm , are all new . Milton seems himself in the state of wonder and awe of the shepherds , and of all those whom he describes as affected by this mi- racle . The trembling , the fervour , the ...
... matter , the imagery , the language , the rhythm , are all new . Milton seems himself in the state of wonder and awe of the shepherds , and of all those whom he describes as affected by this mi- racle . The trembling , the fervour , the ...
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... matter . Though Milton's Latin poetry has been re- marked not generally to partake of the character of his English , it has some exceptions . Warton observes of his poem ' In Quintum Novembris , ' - a college exercise , -that " it ...
... matter . Though Milton's Latin poetry has been re- marked not generally to partake of the character of his English , it has some exceptions . Warton observes of his poem ' In Quintum Novembris , ' - a college exercise , -that " it ...
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Էջ 210 - Daughters, but by 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.
Էջ 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Էջ 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Էջ 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Էջ 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Էջ 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Էջ 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Էջ 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Էջ 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Էջ 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.