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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... LANGUAGE . Before I enter upon the first of these , I muft advertise my reader , that it is my defign , as foon as I have finished my general reflections on thefe four feveral heads , to give particular inftances out of the Poem , now ...
... LANGUAGE . Before I enter upon the first of these , I muft advertise my reader , that it is my defign , as foon as I have finished my general reflections on thefe four feveral heads , to give particular inftances out of the Poem , now ...
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... language of an heroick poem fhould be both perfpicuous and fublime . In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting , the language is imperfect . Perfpicuity is the first and most neceffary qualification ; infomuch that a ...
... language of an heroick poem fhould be both perfpicuous and fublime . In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting , the language is imperfect . Perfpicuity is the first and most neceffary qualification ; infomuch that a ...
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... languages , have a great advantage over thofe which are written in languages that are now spoken . Were there any mean ... language of an epick poem be perfpicuous , unless it be alfo fublime . To this end it ought to deviate from 26 MR ...
... languages , have a great advantage over thofe which are written in languages that are now spoken . Were there any mean ... language of an epick poem be perfpicuous , unless it be alfo fublime . To this end it ought to deviate from 26 MR ...
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... , turns a fentence into a kind of an enigma or riddle ; and that he feldom has re- course to them where the proper and natural words will do as well . Another way of raifing the language , and giving it ON THE PARADISE LOST . 27.
... , turns a fentence into a kind of an enigma or riddle ; and that he feldom has re- course to them where the proper and natural words will do as well . Another way of raifing the language , and giving it ON THE PARADISE LOST . 27.
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... language , and giving it a poetical turn , is to make use of the idioms of other tongues . Virgil is full of the Greek forms of fpeech , which the criticks call Hellenisms , as Horace in his Odes abounds with them much more than Virgil ...
... language , and giving it a poetical turn , is to make use of the idioms of other tongues . Virgil is full of the Greek forms of fpeech , which the criticks call Hellenisms , as Horace in his Odes abounds with them much more than Virgil ...
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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...