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... fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would think there should be something wonderfully pleas- ing in the possession of fame ...
... fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would think there should be something wonderfully pleas- ing in the possession of fame ...
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... falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or im ... fall of man , which No. 267. ] 33 SPECTATOR .
... falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or im ... fall of man , which No. 267. ] 33 SPECTATOR .
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... Fall of Man , has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies . Beside the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much ...
... Fall of Man , has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies . Beside the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much ...
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... Fall of Man , as it is related in scripture . Besides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it . But as for Milton , he had not only ...
... Fall of Man , as it is related in scripture . Besides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it . But as for Milton , he had not only ...
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... falls infinitely short of Homer in the characters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Encas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is styled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole ...
... falls infinitely short of Homer in the characters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Encas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is styled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole ...
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Page 525 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 132 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 175 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Page 123 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 96 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 89 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Page 100 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 129 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 135 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Page 118 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.