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, Volume 4J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... PEARCE . Milton , who knew and ftudied the Scripture thoroughly , and continually profits himself of its vaft fublimity , as well as of the more noble treafures it contains , and to which his poem owes its greatest luftre , has done it ...
... PEARCE . Milton , who knew and ftudied the Scripture thoroughly , and continually profits himself of its vaft fublimity , as well as of the more noble treafures it contains , and to which his poem owes its greatest luftre , has done it ...
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... PEARCE . Ver . 20. If answerable style I can obtain ] His theme was more fublime than the wrath of Achilles , celebrated by Homer in the Iliad ; of Turnus , by Virgil in the Æneid ; or of Neptune , by Homer in the Odyfey : It therefore ...
... PEARCE . Ver . 20. If answerable style I can obtain ] His theme was more fublime than the wrath of Achilles , celebrated by Homer in the Iliad ; of Turnus , by Virgil in the Æneid ; or of Neptune , by Homer in the Odyfey : It therefore ...
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... PEARCE . There is a most beautiful inftance of the use of fuch adverbs for verbs in Shakspeare's fecond part of Hen . IV . " For now a time is come to mock at form ; " Henry the fifth is crown'd : up , Vanity ! " Down , royal State ...
... PEARCE . There is a most beautiful inftance of the use of fuch adverbs for verbs in Shakspeare's fecond part of Hen . IV . " For now a time is come to mock at form ; " Henry the fifth is crown'd : up , Vanity ! " Down , royal State ...
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... PEARCE . Ibid . to me beyond Compare ] Dr. Newton here fays , that Milton has con- verted the verb compare into a noun . But compare had been employed for comparison by preceding poets ; and therefore Milton often ufes it . Many ...
... PEARCE . Ibid . to me beyond Compare ] Dr. Newton here fays , that Milton has con- verted the verb compare into a noun . But compare had been employed for comparison by preceding poets ; and therefore Milton often ufes it . Many ...
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... PEARCE . Ver . 270. - the virgin majesty of Ere , ] The ancients ufed the word virgin , with more latitude than we , as Virgil calls Pafiphae virgin , after she had had three children , Eclog . vi . 47 . And Ovid calls Medea " adultera ...
... PEARCE . Ver . 270. - the virgin majesty of Ere , ] The ancients ufed the word virgin , with more latitude than we , as Virgil calls Pafiphae virgin , after she had had three children , Eclog . vi . 47 . And Ovid calls Medea " adultera ...
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Page 122 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 293 - I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 321 - For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Page 302 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 90 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee , 'Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 83 - This may be well. But what if God have seen, And death ensue ? then I shall be no more ! And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct : A death to think ! Confirm'd then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe.
Page 252 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 321 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 337 - O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasion'd, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring.
Page 90 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.