The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems, Band 8Henry Holt, 1900 - 111 Seiten |
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... poet's character , and certain more external forces , such as , in the case of Milton , are represented by Hellenism and Hebraism . Their activ- ity is greatest where they meet and touch , and at this point their nature and measure are ...
... poet's character , and certain more external forces , such as , in the case of Milton , are represented by Hellenism and Hebraism . Their activ- ity is greatest where they meet and touch , and at this point their nature and measure are ...
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... poets , teachers , philosophers , and artists who were the master - workmen of this people . The stories and conceptions of ... poet who was religious , and hence peculiarly and continually sensitive to moral truth , found in exist- ing ...
... poets , teachers , philosophers , and artists who were the master - workmen of this people . The stories and conceptions of ... poet who was religious , and hence peculiarly and continually sensitive to moral truth , found in exist- ing ...
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... poets like Homer , Plato , and Vergil . Thus in the first book of the Iliad , where Chryses prayed for revenge upon ... poet - philosopher for mythology was not based upon a literal belief in the old religion . He appreciated the beauty ...
... poets like Homer , Plato , and Vergil . Thus in the first book of the Iliad , where Chryses prayed for revenge upon ... poet - philosopher for mythology was not based upon a literal belief in the old religion . He appreciated the beauty ...
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... things so far removed from them as classical myths , and in the drama the poet may not appear in person , as in that Milton ultimately came to prefer such a form of 2 Introduction xvii Of all the allusions to mythology in simile by far ...
... things so far removed from them as classical myths , and in the drama the poet may not appear in person , as in that Milton ultimately came to prefer such a form of 2 Introduction xvii Of all the allusions to mythology in simile by far ...
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... poet is nearly always the more diffuse . Though the amount of mythology in his considerably larger body of poetry appears to be much greater than in Milton , yet it represents less extensive reading in the classics , and covers a range ...
... poet is nearly always the more diffuse . Though the amount of mythology in his considerably larger body of poetry appears to be much greater than in Milton , yet it represents less extensive reading in the classics , and covers a range ...
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According Adonis allusion ambrosia ancients Aphrodite Apollo Apollodorus appears Aurora Bacchus beauty called cave Chaos chariot Chimæra Circe cited classical mythology color Comus conception Cotytto Cronus dark daughter Dawn describes Diana divine earth epithet Erebus Euripides Eurynome father flowers goddess gods golden Gorgons Graces Greek Hades heaven Hell Hephæstus Hera Heracles Hermes Hesiod Hesiod Theog Homer Hyginus hymn idea Jove L'AI L'Al Latin light lines Melancholy mentioned Milton Milton refers Milton speaks mortal mother Muses myth Naiads nature Neptune Night nymphs Odysseus Olympus Orph Orpheus Orphic Ovid Ovid's Paradise passage Pausanias Pens Pindar Plato Plutarch poems poet poetry Poseidon Rhea Saturn says Sea-gods seems serpent Servius sing sirens Sleep song spirit spring Statius story Strabo suggested sweet Theb Theoc Theocritus Theog things tion Titans told truth Venus Verg Vergil Vesta winds wings writers Zephyrus Zeus
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Seite lii - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Seite 57 - 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 heavens and earth Rose out of chaos.
Seite lxi - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Seite lxviii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Seite xv - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite xxv - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Seite lxxxii - For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me! I fondly dream "Had ye been there," — for what could that have done?
Seite lvi - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Seite lix - Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!
Seite xxxix - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.