A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed Mr. Addison's Criticism on Paradise LostJ. and R. Tonson ... and J. Newbery, 1762 - 144 pages |
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... Poets , opens his Parad fe Loft with an in- fernal Council plotting the Fall of Man ; which is the Action he ... Poet by imputing it in fome Measure to the very Na- ture of an Epic Poem . Some have been of Opinion , that the ...
... Poets , opens his Parad fe Loft with an in- fernal Council plotting the Fall of Man ; which is the Action he ... Poet by imputing it in fome Measure to the very Na- ture of an Epic Poem . Some have been of Opinion , that the ...
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... Poets that ever wrote , in the Multitude and Variety of his Cha- racters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , acts a Part which would have been fuitable to no other Deity . His Princes are as much diftinguished by their Manners ...
... Poets that ever wrote , in the Multitude and Variety of his Cha- racters . Every God that is admitted into his Poem , acts a Part which would have been fuitable to no other Deity . His Princes are as much diftinguished by their Manners ...
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... Poet . In fhort , there is neither that Variety nor Novelty in the Perfons of the Eneid , which we meet with in those of the Iliad . IF we look into the Characters of Milton , we fhall find that he has introduced all the Variety his ...
... Poet . In fhort , there is neither that Variety nor Novelty in the Perfons of the Eneid , which we meet with in those of the Iliad . IF we look into the Characters of Milton , we fhall find that he has introduced all the Variety his ...
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... Poet has varied feveral Characters of the Perfons that fpeak in his infernal Affembly . On the contrary , how has he reprefented the whole Godhead exerting itfelf towards Man in its full Benevolence under the Three - fold Diftinction of ...
... Poet has varied feveral Characters of the Perfons that fpeak in his infernal Affembly . On the contrary , how has he reprefented the whole Godhead exerting itfelf towards Man in its full Benevolence under the Three - fold Diftinction of ...
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... Poet endeavours to argue or explain , to magnify or diminish , to raife Love or Hatred , Pity or Terror , or any other Paffion , we ought to confider whether the Sentiments he makes ufe of are proper for thofe Ends . Homer is cenfured ...
... Poet endeavours to argue or explain , to magnify or diminish , to raife Love or Hatred , Pity or Terror , or any other Paffion , we ought to confider whether the Sentiments he makes ufe of are proper for thofe Ends . Homer is cenfured ...
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Page 74 - 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 127 - 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.
Page 16 - Milton's chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas, than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
Page 74 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Page 24 - Milton, by the above-mentioned helps, and by the choice of the noblest words and phrases which our tongue would afford him, has carried our language to a greater height than any of the English poets have ever done before or after him, and made the sublimity of his style equal to that of his sentiments.
Page 79 - At length into the limits of the north They came ; and Satan to his royal seat High on a hill, far blazing, as a mount Rais'd on a mount, with pyramids and towers From diamond quarries hewn, and rocks of gold ; The palace of great Lucifer...
Page 28 - One great mark, by which you may discover a critic who has neither taste nor learning, is this, that he seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author •which has not been before received and applauded by the public, and that his criticism turns wholly upon little faults and errors.
Page 91 - The author appears in a kind of composed and sedate majesty; and though the sentiments do not give so great an emotion as those in the former book, they abound with as magnificent ideas. The sixth book, like a troubled ocean, represents greatness in confusion; the seventh affects the imagination like the ocean in a calm, and fills the mind of the reader, without producing in it any thing like tumult or agitation.
Page 71 - ... endearing things without descending from his natural dignity, and the woman receiving them without departing from the modesty of her character ; in a word, to adjust the prerogatives of wisdom and beauty, and make each appear to the other in its proper force and loveliness. This mutual subordination of the two sexes is wonderfully kept up in the whole poem...
Page 70 - To whom thus Eve replied. O thou for whom And from whom I was form'd, flesh of thy flesh, And without whom am to no end, my guide And head! what thou hast said is just and right. For we to him indeed all praises owe And daily thanks; I chiefly, who enjoy So far the happier lot, enjoying thee Preeminent by so much odds, while thou Like consort to thyself canst no where find.