The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... first thing to be con- fidered in an epick poem , is the FABLE , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or lefs fo . This ACTION fhould have three qualifications in it . Firft , it fhould B 2.
... first thing to be con- fidered in an epick poem , is the FABLE , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or lefs fo . This ACTION fhould have three qualifications in it . Firft , it fhould B 2.
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... Firft , it fhould be but one action . Secondly , it fhould be an entire action . Thirdly , it fhould be a great action . To confider the action of the Iliad , Eneid , and Pa- radise Loft , in these three feveral lights . Homer , to ...
... Firft , it fhould be but one action . Secondly , it fhould be an entire action . Thirdly , it fhould be a great action . To confider the action of the Iliad , Eneid , and Pa- radise Loft , in these three feveral lights . Homer , to ...
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... firft Parents were expelled out ' of Paradife the very next day after the Fall ; and indeed at firft fight it appears fo : " But the learned critick acutely adds , " With what propriety then could the fun's rifing in Aries , when Satan ...
... firft Parents were expelled out ' of Paradife the very next day after the Fall ; and indeed at firft fight it appears fo : " But the learned critick acutely adds , " With what propriety then could the fun's rifing in Aries , when Satan ...
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... firft the FABLE , and fecondly the MANNERS ; or , as we generally call them in English , the FABLE and the CHA- RACTERS . Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters ...
... firft the FABLE , and fecondly the MANNERS ; or , as we generally call them in English , the FABLE and the CHA- RACTERS . Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters ...
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... firft are not only more magnificent , but more new , than any characters either in Virgil or Homer , or indeed in the whole circle of nature . Milton was fo fenfible of this defect in the subject of his Poem , and of the few characters ...
... firft are not only more magnificent , but more new , than any characters either in Virgil or Homer , or indeed in the whole circle of nature . Milton was fo fenfible of this defect in the subject of his Poem , and of the few characters ...
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Page 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Page 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Page 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Page 230 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...