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 5J. Johnson, 1809 |
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Page iv
... beautiful turns of language , is , in its general tenour , of the most fuperiour and dignified kind . Indeed all this part of his speech ( from ver . 191 , to ver . 225. ) feems to breathe fuch a fincere and deep fenfe of the charms of ...
... beautiful turns of language , is , in its general tenour , of the most fuperiour and dignified kind . Indeed all this part of his speech ( from ver . 191 , to ver . 225. ) feems to breathe fuch a fincere and deep fenfe of the charms of ...
Page vi
... opens his pro- greffive difplay of Heathen excellence with an eulogy on Glory ( ver . 25. ) , which is fo intrinfically beautiful , that it may be queftioned whether any Roman orator or poet ever fo eloquently vi PARADISE REGAINED .
... opens his pro- greffive difplay of Heathen excellence with an eulogy on Glory ( ver . 25. ) , which is fo intrinfically beautiful , that it may be queftioned whether any Roman orator or poet ever fo eloquently vi PARADISE REGAINED .
Page xii
... beautiful and original ; and the de- fcription of its muficians , poets , orators , and philofophers , is given with the hand of a mafter , and with all the fond affection of an enthusaft in Greek literature . Our Lord's reply is no ...
... beautiful and original ; and the de- fcription of its muficians , poets , orators , and philofophers , is given with the hand of a mafter , and with all the fond affection of an enthusaft in Greek literature . Our Lord's reply is no ...
Page xiii
... beautiful morning by which it is fucceeded : -how exquifitely fublime and beautiful is all this ! Yet this is the Poem , from which the ardent admirers of Milton's other works turn , as from a cold , uninterefting compofition , the ...
... beautiful morning by which it is fucceeded : -how exquifitely fublime and beautiful is all this ! Yet this is the Poem , from which the ardent admirers of Milton's other works turn , as from a cold , uninterefting compofition , the ...
Page 7
... beautiful , that it is hardly poffible to give the preference even to that in the opening of the Paradife Loft . This has the merit of more concifenefs . Diffufenefs may be con dered as leffening the dignity of invocations on fuch ...
... beautiful , that it is hardly poffible to give the preference even to that in the opening of the Paradife Loft . This has the merit of more concifenefs . Diffufenefs may be con dered as leffening the dignity of invocations on fuch ...
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Page 157 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors...
Page 446 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
Page 467 - Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 481 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 351 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 155 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise ? His lot who dares be singularly good.
Page 8 - ... 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 431 - Look now for no enchanting voice, nor fear The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride, The giant Harapha of Gath, his look Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.
Page 318 - The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.
Page 369 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?