The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Հատոր 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... Italy , and England , did adorn . The First in loftinefs of thought furpass'd ; The Next , in majesty ; in both , the LAST . The force of Nature could no farther go : To make a third , the join'd the former two . DRYDEN . This ...
... Italy , and England , did adorn . The First in loftinefs of thought furpass'd ; The Next , in majesty ; in both , the LAST . The force of Nature could no farther go : To make a third , the join'd the former two . DRYDEN . This ...
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... Italy he rose ; And , tedious years of Gothick darkness pafs'd , Emerg'd all fplendour in our ifle at last . Thus lovely halcyons dive into the main , Then thow far off their fhining plumes again . VOL . II . b COWPER'S Table Talk ...
... Italy he rose ; And , tedious years of Gothick darkness pafs'd , Emerg'd all fplendour in our ifle at last . Thus lovely halcyons dive into the main , Then thow far off their fhining plumes again . VOL . II . b COWPER'S Table Talk ...
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... Italy , because the action , proposed to be celebrated , was that of his fettling himself in La- tium . But because it was neceffary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the preceding parts of ...
... Italy , because the action , proposed to be celebrated , was that of his fettling himself in La- tium . But because it was neceffary for the reader to know what had happened to him in the taking of Troy , and in the preceding parts of ...
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... Italy , carried on through all the op- pofitions in his way to it both by fea and land . The action in Milton excells ( I think ) both the former in this particular : We fee it contrived in Hell , executed upon Earth , and punished by ...
... Italy , carried on through all the op- pofitions in his way to it both by fea and land . The action in Milton excells ( I think ) both the former in this particular : We fee it contrived in Hell , executed upon Earth , and punished by ...
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... Italian criticks , but also with the ancient and modern who have written in either of the learned languages . Above all , I would have them well verfed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he ...
... Italian criticks , but also with the ancient and modern who have written in either of the learned languages . Above all , I would have them well verfed in the Greek and Latin poets , without which a man very often fancies that he ...
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Էջ 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Էջ 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Էջ 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Էջ 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Էջ 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Էջ 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Էջ 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Էջ 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Էջ 230 - ... 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 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...