Poetical WorksUnited States Book Company, 1891 |
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... spirit agreeing with the republican spirit of these times , he strongly supported the cause of the Commonwealth and the destruction of kingly government by several publications on the subject . In 1645 he published a collection of Latin ...
... spirit agreeing with the republican spirit of these times , he strongly supported the cause of the Commonwealth and the destruction of kingly government by several publications on the subject . In 1645 he published a collection of Latin ...
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... spirits , Milton has exhausted all the con- ceivable variety that could be given to pictures of unshaded sanctity : but it is chiefly in those of the fallen angels that his excellence is conspic- uous above everything ancient or modern ...
... spirits , Milton has exhausted all the con- ceivable variety that could be given to pictures of unshaded sanctity : but it is chiefly in those of the fallen angels that his excellence is conspic- uous above everything ancient or modern ...
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... spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul . It indeed pourtrays with terrible energy the ...
... spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alliance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and sublimity of the outward creation and of the soul . It indeed pourtrays with terrible energy the ...
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... spirit so transcendently evil as Satan favours our sympathies with virtue . But our interest fastens , in this and like cases , ou what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with mysterious pleasure , as on a miraculous ...
... spirit so transcendently evil as Satan favours our sympathies with virtue . But our interest fastens , in this and like cases , ou what is not evil . We gaze on Satan with an awe not unmixed with mysterious pleasure , as on a miraculous ...
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... spirit - broken . His " L'Allegro " proves that he understood thoroughly the bright and joyous aspects of nature ; and in his " Pense- roso , " where he was tempted to accumulate images of gloom , we learn that the saddest views which ...
... spirit - broken . His " L'Allegro " proves that he understood thoroughly the bright and joyous aspects of nature ; and in his " Pense- roso , " where he was tempted to accumulate images of gloom , we learn that the saddest views which ...
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Adam agni amorous angels ANTISTROPHE arms aught beast behold bliss bright cherub cherubim CHORUS cloud COMUS Dagon dark death deeds deep delight didst divine doth dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear flowers fræna fruit glorious glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honour ipse Israel John Ruskin King lest light live Lord Lycidas MANOAH Messiah mihi mind morn mortal night numina o'er Olympo pain Paradise peace Philistines praise quæ reign replied round SAMSON Satan seat serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits stood strength sweet taste thee thence thine things thither Thomas Carlyle thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi tree Tu quoque ulmo virtue voice whence wings wonder