Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - Plagiarism |
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... fubject leads him from Heaven to Earth . The word Urania in Greek fignifies heav'nly ; and he invokes the beav'nly Mufe as he had done before , I. 6. and as he had faid in the beginning that he intended to foar above th ' Aonian mount ...
... fubject leads him from Heaven to Earth . The word Urania in Greek fignifies heav'nly ; and he invokes the beav'nly Mufe as he had done before , I. 6. and as he had faid in the beginning that he intended to foar above th ' Aonian mount ...
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... fubject , he fhould confider how Homer would have spoken on fuch an occafion . By this means one great genius often catches the And flame from another , and writes in his fpirit , without copying fervily after him . There are a thoufand ...
... fubject , he fhould confider how Homer would have spoken on fuch an occafion . By this means one great genius often catches the And flame from another , and writes in his fpirit , without copying fervily after him . There are a thoufand ...
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... fubject is touched upon . Milton has fhown his judgment very re- markably , in making ufe of fuch of these as were proper for his poem , and in duly qualifying those high ftrains of eastern poetry , which were fuited to readers , whofe ...
... fubject is touched upon . Milton has fhown his judgment very re- markably , in making ufe of fuch of these as were proper for his poem , and in duly qualifying those high ftrains of eastern poetry , which were fuited to readers , whofe ...
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... fubject , are exquifite in their kind . And the great light of day yet wants to run Much of his race & c . Addifon . Things 72. Divine interpreter , ] So Mer- cury is call'd in Virgil Interpres Di- vum , Æn . IV . 378 . 79 . the end nci ...
... fubject , are exquifite in their kind . And the great light of day yet wants to run Much of his race & c . Addifon . Things 72. Divine interpreter , ] So Mer- cury is call'd in Virgil Interpres Di- vum , Æn . IV . 378 . 79 . the end nci ...
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... fubject will admit fome fine ftrokes of poetry , and feems to have had his eye upon the CIVth Pfalm , which is likewife a divine hymn in praife of the creation , 6th and following verfes . Thou coveredЛ the earth with the deep ; the ...
... fubject will admit fome fine ftrokes of poetry , and feems to have had his eye upon the CIVth Pfalm , which is likewife a divine hymn in praife of the creation , 6th and following verfes . Thou coveredЛ the earth with the deep ; the ...
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Page 9 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 431 - ... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Page 149 - O Woman ! best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created: much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force; within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power: Against his will, he can receive no harm...
Page 429 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 283 - Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and...
Page 100 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks ; which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 32 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Page 49 - As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they...
Page 200 - Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin...
Page 434 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.