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Page 32
He could practise this self - denial when his artistic sense found it need- ful , whether for variety of verse or for the greater intensity of effect to be gained by abruptness . His more elaborate passages have the multitudinous roll ...
He could practise this self - denial when his artistic sense found it need- ful , whether for variety of verse or for the greater intensity of effect to be gained by abruptness . His more elaborate passages have the multitudinous roll ...
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If it would not be fair to say that he is the most artistic , he may be called in the highest sense the most scientific of our poets . If to Spenser younger poets have gone to be sung - to , they have sat at the feet of Milton to be ...
If it would not be fair to say that he is the most artistic , he may be called in the highest sense the most scientific of our poets . If to Spenser younger poets have gone to be sung - to , they have sat at the feet of Milton to be ...
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... world of eloquence , harmony , and genius . A rib of Shakespeare would have made a Milton ; the same portion of Milton , all poets born ever since . ARNOLD . FROM THE ESSAY ON MILTON . IF to our English race an inadequate sense for ...
... world of eloquence , harmony , and genius . A rib of Shakespeare would have made a Milton ; the same portion of Milton , all poets born ever since . ARNOLD . FROM THE ESSAY ON MILTON . IF to our English race an inadequate sense for ...
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But what other poet has shown so sincere a sense of the grandeur of his vocation , and a moral effort so constant and sublime to make and keep himself worthy of it ? The Milton of religious and political controversy , and perhaps of ...
But what other poet has shown so sincere a sense of the grandeur of his vocation , and a moral effort so constant and sublime to make and keep himself worthy of it ? The Milton of religious and political controversy , and perhaps of ...
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If this host of readers are ever to gain any sense of the power and charm of the great poets of antiquity , their way to gain it is not through translations of the ancients , but through the ori- ginal poetry of Milton , who has the ...
If this host of readers are ever to gain any sense of the power and charm of the great poets of antiquity , their way to gain it is not through translations of the ancients , but through the ori- ginal poetry of Milton , who has the ...
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Page 38 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by 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 62 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 53 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 102 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 70 - With lust and violence the house of God? 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.
Page 57 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 21 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
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| Title | Paradise Lost, Books 1-2 The students series of English classics |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1896 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 24, 2007 |
| Length | 210 pages |
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