The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1John Macrone, 1835 |
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... invention - Remarks on the quality of Milton's genius - Technical critics require technical excellences - Addison's rules of criticism 238 CHAPTER XXIII . On Paradise Regained ' - Critical analysis , with an inten- tion to prove that it ...
... invention - Remarks on the quality of Milton's genius - Technical critics require technical excellences - Addison's rules of criticism 238 CHAPTER XXIII . On Paradise Regained ' - Critical analysis , with an inten- tion to prove that it ...
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... invention display themselves " much in the Elegies . ' I suspect that the greater part of them might have been by any classical scholar of lively talents , rich in learning , and 1609 he appears to have been physician to Henry , Prince ...
... invention display themselves " much in the Elegies . ' I suspect that the greater part of them might have been by any classical scholar of lively talents , rich in learning , and 1609 he appears to have been physician to Henry , Prince ...
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... inventions . Shakspeare enters into the souls of others : Spenser brings them upon the stage in groups , in all the allegorical fabulousness of their outward forms ; he is the painter of the times of chivalry , moralized into fictions ...
... inventions . Shakspeare enters into the souls of others : Spenser brings them upon the stage in groups , in all the allegorical fabulousness of their outward forms ; he is the painter of the times of chivalry , moralized into fictions ...
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... invention ; and hence Milton seems to make a very pertinent and natural transition to Spenser , whose Faƫry Queene , ' although it externally professes to treat of tournaments and the trophies of knightly valour , of forests drear and ...
... invention ; and hence Milton seems to make a very pertinent and natural transition to Spenser , whose Faƫry Queene , ' although it externally professes to treat of tournaments and the trophies of knightly valour , of forests drear and ...
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... invention which belongs to the bard of Paradise Lost . ' Warton criticises John- son's comment with a just severity : " Never , " says he , " were fine imagery and fine imagina- tion so marred , mutilated , and impoverished by a cold ...
... invention which belongs to the bard of Paradise Lost . ' Warton criticises John- son's comment with a just severity : " Never , " says he , " were fine imagery and fine imagina- tion so marred , mutilated , and impoverished by a cold ...
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Addison admiration ancient Andrew Marvell angels appear bard beautiful blind character church Comus Countess of Derby critic daughter defence delight Deodate divine Dryden edition England English epic exalted fable father favour force genius glorious glory Harefield hath heart Heaven honour hope human imagery images imagination invention Italy J. M. W. TURNER John Milton Johnson King L'Allegro labour language Latin learning less liberty lived lofty Lycidas majesty ment mind moral Muse nation native nature never noble observation opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages passions perhaps persons Petrarch piety poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Pope Powell praise prose published Puritan racter reader rich Samson Samson Agonistes says seems sentiment Shakspeare Smectymnuus solemn Spenser spirit style sublime Tasso taste thee things thou thought tion Tiresias true truth verse vigour virtue Warton whole words write