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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... mean penfions of Auguftan times ; Immortal patrons of fucceeding days , Attend this prelude of perpetual praife ! Let Wit , condemn'd the feeble war to wage With clofe malevolence , or publick rage ; Let Study , worn with virtue's ...
... mean penfions of Auguftan times ; Immortal patrons of fucceeding days , Attend this prelude of perpetual praife ! Let Wit , condemn'd the feeble war to wage With clofe malevolence , or publick rage ; Let Study , worn with virtue's ...
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... mean that it thould be great in its nature , but alfo in its duration , or in other words , that it fhould have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatnefs . The juft measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains ...
... mean that it thould be great in its nature , but alfo in its duration , or in other words , that it fhould have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatnefs . The juft measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains ...
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... means he has wrought into the body of his fable , a very beautiful and well - invented allegory . But , notwithstanding the fineness of this allegory may atone for it in fome meafure , I cannot think that perfons of fuch a chimerical ...
... means he has wrought into the body of his fable , a very beautiful and well - invented allegory . But , notwithstanding the fineness of this allegory may atone for it in fome meafure , I cannot think that perfons of fuch a chimerical ...
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... mean the authors ' having chofen , for their heroes , perfons who were fo nearly related to the people for whoni they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Æneas the remote founder of Rome . By this means their countrymen ( whom they ...
... mean the authors ' having chofen , for their heroes , perfons who were fo nearly related to the people for whoni they wrote . Achilles was a Greek , and Æneas the remote founder of Rome . By this means their countrymen ( whom they ...
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... mean and vulgar . As for the first kind of thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil . He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid ; none of the epigrammatick ...
... mean and vulgar . As for the first kind of thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil . He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid ; none of the epigrammatick ...
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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...