Criticisms on Paradise LostGinn, 1892 - 200 pages |
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Page xvi
... passions of humanity and commiseration ' ? His own experience , on the other hand , is that the incidents in Paradise Lost are such as awaken in him but the most languid interest ; and that the afflictions and sentiments of Adam and Eve ...
... passions of humanity and commiseration ' ? His own experience , on the other hand , is that the incidents in Paradise Lost are such as awaken in him but the most languid interest ; and that the afflictions and sentiments of Adam and Eve ...
Page xviii
... passions ; that language of a certain strain , and an action with certain qualifications , must render a poem attractive and effective . Disregard the convention ; ask solely whether the incidents do interest , whether the sentiments do ...
... passions ; that language of a certain strain , and an action with certain qualifications , must render a poem attractive and effective . Disregard the convention ; ask solely whether the incidents do interest , whether the sentiments do ...
Page xx
... passions ; that language of a certain strain , and an action with certain qualifications , must render a poem attractive and effective " ? And was not his assumption war- ranted by the result ? If " Addison's criticism rests on cer ...
... passions ; that language of a certain strain , and an action with certain qualifications , must render a poem attractive and effective " ? And was not his assumption war- ranted by the result ? If " Addison's criticism rests on cer ...
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... passion , we ought to consider whether the sentiments he makes use of are proper for those 2 ends . Homer is censured by the critics for his defect as to this particular in several parts s of the Iliad and Odyssey , though at the same ...
... passion , we ought to consider whether the sentiments he makes use of are proper for those 2 ends . Homer is censured by the critics for his defect as to this particular in several parts s of the Iliad and Odyssey , though at the same ...
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... passions of a much nobler nature . Homer , however , in his characters of 1 First edition , ' that ' ( Arber ) . 2 First edition omits ' still ' ( Arber ) . 8 First edition , ' low . ' 4 First edition omits ' a . ' 5 First edition ...
... passions of a much nobler nature . Homer , however , in his characters of 1 First edition , ' that ' ( Arber ) . 2 First edition omits ' still ' ( Arber ) . 8 First edition , ' low . ' 4 First edition omits ' a . ' 5 First edition ...
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Page 77 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 147 - Whence thou return'st, and whither went'st, I know For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on— In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Page 68 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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 40 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 71 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 138 - 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. In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?
Page 42 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
Page 120 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and nature gave a second groan ; Sky loured ; and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 138 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?