The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 7J. Crissy, 1824 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... Milton . The Paradise Lost is looked upon by the best judges as the greatest production , or at least , the noblest work of genius , in our language , and therefore deserves to be set before an En- glish reader in its full beauty . For ...
... Milton . The Paradise Lost is looked upon by the best judges as the greatest production , or at least , the noblest work of genius , in our language , and therefore deserves to be set before an En- glish reader in its full beauty . For ...
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... Milton which I have not taken notice of . I must likewise observe , that as the greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another as to some particular points in an epic poem , I have not bound myself scrupulously to the ...
... Milton which I have not taken notice of . I must likewise observe , that as the greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another as to some particular points in an epic poem , I have not bound myself scrupulously to the ...
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... Milton's exuberance of imagination has poured forth such a redundancy of orna- ments on this seat of happiness and innocence , that it would be endless to point out each par- ticular . I must not quit this head , without further ob ...
... Milton's exuberance of imagination has poured forth such a redundancy of orna- ments on this seat of happiness and innocence , that it would be endless to point out each par- ticular . I must not quit this head , without further ob ...
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... Milton is every where full of hints , and sometimes literal trans- lations , taken from the greatest of the Greek and Latin poets . But this I may reserve for a dis- course by itself , because I would not break the thread of these ...
... Milton is every where full of hints , and sometimes literal trans- lations , taken from the greatest of the Greek and Latin poets . But this I may reserve for a dis- course by itself , because I would not break the thread of these ...
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... Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert it as a po- etical embellishment , like the authors above mentioned , but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his ...
... Milton , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert it as a po- etical embellishment , like the authors above mentioned , but makes an artful use of it for the proper carrying on of his ...
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Page 236 - 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 44 - 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 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 37 - Pure as the expanse of Heaven: I thither went, With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seem'd another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appear'd, Bending to look on me; I started back: It started back: but pleased I soon return'd; Pleas'd it return'd as soon, with answering looks Of sympathy and love...
Page 14 - 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...
Page 79 - Was given him temper'd so, that neither keen Nor solid might resist that edge: it met The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite Descending, and in half cut sheer; nor stay'd, But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, shared All his right side.
Page 210 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 243 - Broke up shall heave the ocean to usurp Beyond all bounds, till inundation rise Above the highest hills : then shall this mount Of Paradise by might of waves be...
Page 18 - Sole partner, and sole part, of all these joys, Dearer thyself than all ; needs must the Power That made us, and for us this ample world, Be infinitely good, and of his good As liberal and free as infinite...
Page 15 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn. Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.