Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 Seiten |
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... Homer and Virgil both acquaint us with many forms of punish- ment in Tartarus . Eneas on his visit to the world of shades was not admitted within its gates , on the ground that no holy person is allowed to tread the accursed threshold ...
... Homer and Virgil both acquaint us with many forms of punish- ment in Tartarus . Eneas on his visit to the world of shades was not admitted within its gates , on the ground that no holy person is allowed to tread the accursed threshold ...
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... Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin ; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced ...
... Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin ; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced ...
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... The origin of evil , a problem of universal and never - failing interest , is here suggested . Like Homer , but unlike Virgil and Tasso , Milton combines the announcement of Brought death into the world , and all our woe.
... The origin of evil , a problem of universal and never - failing interest , is here suggested . Like Homer , but unlike Virgil and Tasso , Milton combines the announcement of Brought death into the world , and all our woe.
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... Homer in the Iliad , but unlike the others , Milton keeps himself out of sight at the first . Observe , too , that Milton's opening , like that of Virgil's first Georgic , keeps the mind in suspense , the interest deepening , and the ...
... Homer in the Iliad , but unlike the others , Milton keeps himself out of sight at the first . Observe , too , that Milton's opening , like that of Virgil's first Georgic , keeps the mind in suspense , the interest deepening , and the ...
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... Homer's Iliad , II . 484 , 485 , " Tell me now , ye Muses having Olympian homes ; for ye are goddesses , and ye are present [ with all things ] and know all . " Similar is also Virgil's Eneid , VII . 641 , 645 ; so Hesiod's Theogony , 1 ...
... Homer's Iliad , II . 484 , 485 , " Tell me now , ye Muses having Olympian homes ; for ye are goddesses , and ye are present [ with all things ] and know all . " Similar is also Virgil's Eneid , VII . 641 , 645 ; so Hesiod's Theogony , 1 ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxix - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Seite 42 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Seite 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...