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... Samson Agonistes the Chorus proves incompe- tent to solve the problem of woman's beauty , and with a resigned perplexity , puts the following question : Is it for that such outward ornament Was lavished on their sex , that inward gifts ...
... Samson Agonistes the Chorus proves incompe- tent to solve the problem of woman's beauty , and with a resigned perplexity , puts the following question : Is it for that such outward ornament Was lavished on their sex , that inward gifts ...
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... Samson Agonistes , and of ' Tuscan artist ' upon Galileo . His coup- ling of the two nouns in the phrase , ' wild above rule or art , " brings out his basic meaning , which is amplified in the lines , But with such gardening tools as ...
... Samson Agonistes , and of ' Tuscan artist ' upon Galileo . His coup- ling of the two nouns in the phrase , ' wild above rule or art , " brings out his basic meaning , which is amplified in the lines , But with such gardening tools as ...
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... Samson , in the Agonistes , are the only two proper pictures that I remember in Milton . " Among other pictures that seem equally graphic is that of the dismay of Adam at Eve's recital upon returning from the Tree of Knowledge : 410 . 1 ...
... Samson , in the Agonistes , are the only two proper pictures that I remember in Milton . " Among other pictures that seem equally graphic is that of the dismay of Adam at Eve's recital upon returning from the Tree of Knowledge : 410 . 1 ...
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... Samson , lamenting his folly cries : Tell me , friends , Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street ? Do they not say , ' How well Are come upon him his deserts ' ? Yet why ? Immeasurable strength they might behold In me ...
... Samson , lamenting his folly cries : Tell me , friends , Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street ? Do they not say , ' How well Are come upon him his deserts ' ? Yet why ? Immeasurable strength they might behold In me ...
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... Samson Agonistes seems to countenance both views ; certain lines in the poem rather suggest purgation ; while in the Latin definition on the title - page , Aristotle's κáðαpois is rendered by lustratio1 ( rather than purgatio ) . Lit ...
... Samson Agonistes seems to countenance both views ; certain lines in the poem rather suggest purgation ; while in the Latin definition on the title - page , Aristotle's κáðαpois is rendered by lustratio1 ( rather than purgatio ) . Lit ...
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Page 175 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 271 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Page 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 17 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun,— Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 307 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 36 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 206 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, — Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, — That Orpheus...
Page 198 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 200 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose ; Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
Page 22 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...