Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Bände 1-2J. Parsons, 1796 |
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... Adam's curiosity after the planetary motions , with the answer returned by Adam , may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered . The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress , are such ...
... Adam's curiosity after the planetary motions , with the answer returned by Adam , may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered . The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress , are such ...
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... Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam , and , like him , must all bewail our offences ; we have restless and insidious enemies in the fallen angels , and in the blessed spirits we have guar- dians and friends ; in the redemption of ...
... Adam's disobedience ; we all sin like Adam , and , like him , must all bewail our offences ; we have restless and insidious enemies in the fallen angels , and in the blessed spirits we have guar- dians and friends ; in the redemption of ...
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... the prow- ess of Adam . The confusion of spirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven , fills it with incongruity ; and the book , in which it is related , is , I believe Ixvi DISSERTATION ON.
... the prow- ess of Adam . The confusion of spirit and matter which pervades the whole narration of the war of Heaven , fills it with incongruity ; and the book , in which it is related , is , I believe Ixvi DISSERTATION ON.
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... perhaps is now and then discovered . Adam's discourse of dreams seems not to be the specu- lation of a new - created being . I know not whether his answer to the angel's reproof for curiosity does lxviii DISSERTATION ON.
... perhaps is now and then discovered . Adam's discourse of dreams seems not to be the specu- lation of a new - created being . I know not whether his answer to the angel's reproof for curiosity does lxviii DISSERTATION ON.
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... Adam could understand the comparison . Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say , that all the parts are not equal . In every work , one part must be for the sake of others : a palace must ...
... Adam could understand the comparison . Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say , that all the parts are not equal . In every work , one part must be for the sake of others : a palace must ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abdiel Adam Almighty Angels appear'd arm'd arms beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright call'd Cherubim Chimæra cloud Comus creatures dark death deep delight divine dread dwell Epic Poetry eternal ev'ning ev'ry evil eyes fair Father fire flow'rs fruit gates giv'n glory Gods grace hand happy hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell hill Iliad JOHN MILTON King light live Lord mankind Martin Bucer Milton mind Moloch morn Newton night o'er pain PARADISE LOST Paradise Regained pass'd pleas'd Poem Poet pow'r praise rais'd reign reply'd return'd round Satan says seem'd Serpent shalt sight Smectymnuus soon Sp'rits spake Spirit stars stood sweet taste Telassar Thammuz thee thence thine things thou hast thoughts thro throne thyself tow'rds tree turn'd vex'd Virgil voice wand'ring whence wings words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 3 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly 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...
Seite 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Seite 74 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Seite 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Seite 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Seite 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Seite 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Seite 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Seite 74 - 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...