Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... of the celebrated critic ; nor is there any research ; nor is the narrative well put together . There are not even many splendid passages , which commonly occur in other Lives by this popular author , except what are borrowed xxii PREFACE .
... of the celebrated critic ; nor is there any research ; nor is the narrative well put together . There are not even many splendid passages , which commonly occur in other Lives by this popular author , except what are borrowed xxii PREFACE .
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... passages in his prose works , or from the tone and colour of his poems . Less in this way has been attempted by my predecessors in this task than seemed to me to be requisite . Per- haps I have been more copious in my own reflec- tions ...
... passages in his prose works , or from the tone and colour of his poems . Less in this way has been attempted by my predecessors in this task than seemed to me to be requisite . Per- haps I have been more copious in my own reflec- tions ...
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... passages in his Lycidas concordant with it . It does not seem to me that there are any traces of these Calvinistic prejudices at the time he visited Italy , unless his friendship to Charles Deodate be a sign of it ; which I think ...
... passages in his Lycidas concordant with it . It does not seem to me that there are any traces of these Calvinistic prejudices at the time he visited Italy , unless his friendship to Charles Deodate be a sign of it ; which I think ...
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... passages of the latter poem . The metre wants variety and so- norousness . 6 The passages I chiefly allude to , are Contem- plation- down to Again : Him that yon soars on golden wing , -the far - off curfeu sound , Over some wide ...
... passages of the latter poem . The metre wants variety and so- norousness . 6 The passages I chiefly allude to , are Contem- plation- down to Again : Him that yon soars on golden wing , -the far - off curfeu sound , Over some wide ...
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... passage should here be cited from our author's Apology for Smectymnus : ' - ' I may tell you whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which re- count in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood ...
... passage should here be cited from our author's Apology for Smectymnus : ' - ' I may tell you whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which re- count in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood ...
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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.