The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 542 pages |
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... ideas ; its very learnedness impresses us with respect . It moves with a gigantic step it does not flow like ... idea : thus the common reader is repelled , and the sublimities and beauties of this incomparable poem are known ...
... ideas ; its very learnedness impresses us with respect . It moves with a gigantic step it does not flow like ... idea : thus the common reader is repelled , and the sublimities and beauties of this incomparable poem are known ...
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... ideas sug- gested by the sacred writings ; the habitual resolve to lift his mind and heart above earthly thoughts ; the incessant exercise of all the strongest faculties of the intellect ; retirement , temperance , courage , hope ...
... ideas sug- gested by the sacred writings ; the habitual resolve to lift his mind and heart above earthly thoughts ; the incessant exercise of all the strongest faculties of the intellect ; retirement , temperance , courage , hope ...
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... ideas , which Milton has embodied , no imagination but his own would have dared to attempt ; none else would have risen to the height of this great argument . ' Every one else would have fallen short of it , and degraded it . Among the ...
... ideas , which Milton has embodied , no imagination but his own would have dared to attempt ; none else would have risen to the height of this great argument . ' Every one else would have fallen short of it , and degraded it . Among the ...
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... idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by sym- bols . We use the word but we have no image of the thing ; and the busi- ness of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ...
... idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by sym- bols . We use the word but we have no image of the thing ; and the busi- ness of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ...
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... ideas , and of intimating more than he expressed , enabled him to disguise those incongruities which he could not avoid . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful ...
... ideas , and of intimating more than he expressed , enabled him to disguise those incongruities which he could not avoid . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonderful ...
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Page 8 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren 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...
Page 104 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 17 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 92 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 174 - 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 flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 175 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 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.
Page 76 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 199 - The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Page 90 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 50 - The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.