Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. ...J. and R. Tonson, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 8 others in London], 1763 |
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... should be obfcure and inglorious to the reft of the world . And in other parts of his works , after he had engaged in the controverfies of the times , he still promised to produce fome noble poem or other at a fitter season ; but it ...
... should be obfcure and inglorious to the reft of the world . And in other parts of his works , after he had engaged in the controverfies of the times , he still promised to produce fome noble poem or other at a fitter season ; but it ...
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... should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he spann'd , Jealous I was that fome less skilful hand ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day To change in ...
... should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he spann'd , Jealous I was that fome less skilful hand ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day To change in ...
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... should be an Entire ac- tion ; and Thirdly , It fhould be a Great action . To confider the ac- tion of the Iliad , Eneid , and Para- dife Loft , in these three feveral Propert . lights . Homer to preferve the unity of his action haftens ...
... should be an Entire ac- tion ; and Thirdly , It fhould be a Great action . To confider the ac- tion of the Iliad , Eneid , and Para- dife Loft , in these three feveral Propert . lights . Homer to preferve the unity of his action haftens ...
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... should be an entire action : An action is entire when it is com- plete in all its parts ; or as Ariftotle defcribes it , when it confifts of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be in- termix'd with it ...
... should be an entire action : An action is entire when it is com- plete in all its parts ; or as Ariftotle defcribes it , when it confifts of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be in- termix'd with it ...
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... should not only avoid fuch fentiments as are unnatural or affected , but also fuch as are mean and vulgar . Homer has opened a great field of rallery to men of more delicacy than great- nefs of genius , by the homeliness of fome of his ...
... should not only avoid fuch fentiments as are unnatural or affected , but also fuch as are mean and vulgar . Homer has opened a great field of rallery to men of more delicacy than great- nefs of genius , by the homeliness of fome of his ...
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Page vii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Page 186 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 414 - By none ; and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free ; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Page 31 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 256 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 257 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 146 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Page 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 79 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 272 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...