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Page xxix
It does not rise into all the wildness of the romantic fable , only because it is guarded and subdued by a chaste and elegant judgment . Sir Henry Wotton was peculiarly delighted in the lyrical parts , with what he quaintly , but not ...
It does not rise into all the wildness of the romantic fable , only because it is guarded and subdued by a chaste and elegant judgment . Sir Henry Wotton was peculiarly delighted in the lyrical parts , with what he quaintly , but not ...
Page xxxii
Rise , Genoa , rise in beauty from the sea , Old Doria's blood is flowing in thy veins ! Rise , peerless in thy beauty ! what remains Of thy old glory is enough for me . Flow then , ye emerald waters , bright and free !
Rise , Genoa , rise in beauty from the sea , Old Doria's blood is flowing in thy veins ! Rise , peerless in thy beauty ! what remains Of thy old glory is enough for me . Flow then , ye emerald waters , bright and free !
Page xlviii
... that his sorrows were seen through an exaggerating medium , seems hardly less clear . His own experience is the best refutation of his work ; his marriage , though clouded over in its rise , and portending storms xlviii LIFE OF MILTON .
... that his sorrows were seen through an exaggerating medium , seems hardly less clear . His own experience is the best refutation of his work ; his marriage , though clouded over in its rise , and portending storms xlviii LIFE OF MILTON .
Page xlix
though clouded over in its rise , and portending storms , and sorrows , and strife , ended , as we believe , in the smiles of renewed affection , in conjugal endearments , and continued love and we must also recollect that Milton had ...
though clouded over in its rise , and portending storms , and sorrows , and strife , ended , as we believe , in the smiles of renewed affection , in conjugal endearments , and continued love and we must also recollect that Milton had ...
Page lxxx
But he sometimes rises into a surprising grandeur in the sentiments and expressions , as at the conclusion of the second book ; I never saw any thing equal to this , but the conclusion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World .
But he sometimes rises into a surprising grandeur in the sentiments and expressions , as at the conclusion of the second book ; I never saw any thing equal to this , but the conclusion of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World .
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1 The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, John Mitford |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2009 |
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