Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... produced the Paradise Lost , ' nearly forty years afterwards . 6 I am not aware that our young bard had any prototype in this sort of ode : the form , the matter , the imagery , the language , the rhythm , are all new . Milton seems ...
... produced the Paradise Lost , ' nearly forty years afterwards . 6 I am not aware that our young bard had any prototype in this sort of ode : the form , the matter , the imagery , the language , the rhythm , are all new . Milton seems ...
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... produced no fame to him . When he retired to his father's house at Horton next year , he retired as one who had yet done nothing . His Latin poems want the solemnity , the sublimity , the enthusiasm , the wildness , the imaginativeness ...
... produced no fame to him . When he retired to his father's house at Horton next year , he retired as one who had yet done nothing . His Latin poems want the solemnity , the sublimity , the enthusiasm , the wildness , the imaginativeness ...
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... produce an epic poem on the inferior and comparatively puerile theme of King Arthur , which no imaginative in- vention could have invested with the same dignity ; when even chivalry had not yet arrived at its his- toric grandeur , and ...
... produce an epic poem on the inferior and comparatively puerile theme of King Arthur , which no imaginative in- vention could have invested with the same dignity ; when even chivalry had not yet arrived at its his- toric grandeur , and ...
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... produced from Etna's fiery cave : And what avails , at last , tune without voice , Devoid of matter ? Such may suit perhaps The rural dance , but such was ne'er the song Of Orpheus , whom the streams stood still to hear , And the oaks ...
... produced from Etna's fiery cave : And what avails , at last , tune without voice , Devoid of matter ? Such may suit perhaps The rural dance , but such was ne'er the song Of Orpheus , whom the streams stood still to hear , And the oaks ...
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... bursts of that mind which produced Paradise Lost , ' even in his verses from the age of thirteen . Sometimes an image , —sometimes an epithet displays it . A holy inspiration had already commenced in his mind . The LIFE OF MILTON . 31 .
... bursts of that mind which produced Paradise Lost , ' even in his verses from the age of thirteen . Sometimes an image , —sometimes an epithet displays it . A holy inspiration had already commenced in his mind . The LIFE OF MILTON . 31 .
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Page 210 - 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 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Page 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 100 - 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...
Page 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.