The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Spirit that can enrich with all utter- ance and knowledge , and sends out his Seraphim , with the hallowed fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases . To this must be added , industrious and select reading ...
... Spirit that can enrich with all utter- ance and knowledge , and sends out his Seraphim , with the hallowed fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases . To this must be added , industrious and select reading ...
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... spirit and elegance , easily gains atten- tion ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his king , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dis- persed with equal rapidity , or read with equal ...
... spirit and elegance , easily gains atten- tion ; and he , who told every man that he was equal to his king , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dis- persed with equal rapidity , or read with equal ...
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... Spirit is addressed to the audience ; a mode of com- munication so contrary to the nature of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long ; an objec- tion that may be made to ...
... Spirit is addressed to the audience ; a mode of com- munication so contrary to the nature of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long ; an objec- tion that may be made to ...
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... Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the Brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good Being . In all these parts the language is ...
... Spirit relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the Brother moralizes again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration , of no use because it is false , and therefore unsuitable to a good Being . In all these parts the language is ...
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... spirit of science , unmingled with its grosser parts . He had considered creation in its whole extent , and his descriptions are therefore learned . He had accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indul- gence , and his conceptions ...
... spirit of science , unmingled with its grosser parts . He had considered creation in its whole extent , and his descriptions are therefore learned . He had accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indul- gence , and his conceptions ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.