The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems, Band 8Henry Holt, 1900 - 111 Seiten |
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... true . ' The air is filled with the fragrance of gorgeous flowers , and with the soft call of unseen birds . Where the leafy branches part little vistas invite exploration . Airs , vernal airs , Breathing the smell of field and grove ...
... true . ' The air is filled with the fragrance of gorgeous flowers , and with the soft call of unseen birds . Where the leafy branches part little vistas invite exploration . Airs , vernal airs , Breathing the smell of field and grove ...
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... true classicism . He is there- fore less faithful to originals . His mythology has more the nature of external ornament rather profusely applied . There is evidence that , like the Italians , he was more charmed with its sensuous and ...
... true classicism . He is there- fore less faithful to originals . His mythology has more the nature of external ornament rather profusely applied . There is evidence that , like the Italians , he was more charmed with its sensuous and ...
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... true in descriptions of the dawn , of night , and of the prog- ress of the sun and moon . ' We have already noticed how Milton can enliven and illuminate a description of natural beauty by throw- ing into it a touch of human life which ...
... true in descriptions of the dawn , of night , and of the prog- ress of the sun and moon . ' We have already noticed how Milton can enliven and illuminate a description of natural beauty by throw- ing into it a touch of human life which ...
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... true nature of his classicism and his artistic tempera- ment . As we approach these questions , the first thing for us to consider is that the part assigned to mythology in such descriptions varies widely in extent . One descrip- tion ...
... true nature of his classicism and his artistic tempera- ment . As we approach these questions , the first thing for us to consider is that the part assigned to mythology in such descriptions varies widely in extent . One descrip- tion ...
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... true artist , realizes that though color is lovely , something else is still lovelier , more important , and more vital . He loves the morning for its freshness , its action , its grace , its dignity , its progress toward glo- 5. 749 ...
... true artist , realizes that though color is lovely , something else is still lovelier , more important , and more vital . He loves the morning for its freshness , its action , its grace , its dignity , its progress toward glo- 5. 749 ...
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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.