The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon1855 |
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... expression . Satan disdains to utter the name of God , though he cannot but acknowledge his superiority . " - NEWTON . This way of indicating a subject which you do not wish to name , is known by rhetoricians as a Euphemism . 101 ...
... expression . Satan disdains to utter the name of God , though he cannot but acknowledge his superiority . " - NEWTON . This way of indicating a subject which you do not wish to name , is known by rhetoricians as a Euphemism . 101 ...
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... expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ! " - HAZLITT'S Lectures . Line 202. has been ...
... expression ! What an idea it conveys of the size of that hugest of created beings , as if it shrunk up the ocean to a stream , and took up the sea in its nostrils as a very little thing ! " - HAZLITT'S Lectures . Line 202. has been ...
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... expression of the sentiment , almost of the very image . They rise or fall , pause or hurry rapidly on , with exqui- site art , but without the least trick or affectation , as the occasion seems to require . " - HAZLITT'S Lectures on ...
... expression of the sentiment , almost of the very image . They rise or fall , pause or hurry rapidly on , with exqui- site art , but without the least trick or affectation , as the occasion seems to require . " - HAZLITT'S Lectures on ...
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... expression appear , than if the author had said " Things unattempted yet in prose or verse . " In another passage , where , for the sake of variety , he has made use of the last phrase , he adds an epithet , to remove it a little from ...
... expression appear , than if the author had said " Things unattempted yet in prose or verse . " In another passage , where , for the sake of variety , he has made use of the last phrase , he adds an epithet , to remove it a little from ...
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... expression " mobile vulgus , " from which our word mob no doubt comes ; just as the word cab comes from cabriolet . 739-740 . And in Ausonian land men called him Mulciber . ] " Ausonia " is one of the ancient names of Italy , and ...
... expression " mobile vulgus , " from which our word mob no doubt comes ; just as the word cab comes from cabriolet . 739-740 . And in Ausonian land men called him Mulciber . ] " Ausonia " is one of the ancient names of Italy , and ...
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The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon John Milton Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1855 |
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Adam adjective alliteration Almighty ancient angels arms beautiful Beelzebub Belial bliss called Cocytus creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful earth Egypt Elealeh ellipsis eternal evil eyes Faerie Queene Father fell Fiend fire flames flowers gates glory Gods grace Greek happy hath Heaven heavenly Hell honour hope human Iliad imitated infernal Jupiter king labour Latin less light living means Milton mind Moloch mortal nature night nominative absolute noun o'er Ovid pain Paneas Paradise Lost passage periphrasis Phlegethon Phlegra pleonasm poet poetry prose rage reign round sacred Satan says Scylla seat seems sense Shakspeare shape side sight signifying sleep spake spear Spenser Spirits stood Styx sublime sweet Thammuz Thamyris thee thence thing thither thou thought throne tion verb Virgil wander whence winds wings word
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Էջ 7 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe; Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Էջ 158 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Էջ 139 - Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Էջ 159 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Էջ 5 - ... to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren 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 157 - Unargued I obey : So God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Էջ 58 - A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Էջ 38 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Էջ 144 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men...
Էջ 125 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.