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... Literature . The true setting for Milton and his work is not so much English Literature as English History . The history of the seventeenth century makes Milton's work much clearer to us than the literature of the seventeenth cen- tury ...
... Literature . The true setting for Milton and his work is not so much English Literature as English History . The history of the seventeenth century makes Milton's work much clearer to us than the literature of the seventeenth cen- tury ...
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... literature which in Milton's day practically did not exist , and which has for us a much more imperious attraction , to say the least , than has the epic . We are so accustomed to novel- reading that some of us can read nothing else ...
... literature which in Milton's day practically did not exist , and which has for us a much more imperious attraction , to say the least , than has the epic . We are so accustomed to novel- reading that some of us can read nothing else ...
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... literature from Homer.1 They may be said to be a mark of the classic style as opposed to what is sometimes called the romantic . Read , if you like , Tennyson's " Idylls of the King , " or one of them , and then Matthew Arnold's ...
... literature from Homer.1 They may be said to be a mark of the classic style as opposed to what is sometimes called the romantic . Read , if you like , Tennyson's " Idylls of the King , " or one of them , and then Matthew Arnold's ...
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... literature ; he was familiar with their systems of metre , and with the attempts , more or less successful , to accommodate English verse to them , or to accommodate them to English verse . We must then know what was the metrical system ...
... literature ; he was familiar with their systems of metre , and with the attempts , more or less successful , to accommodate English verse to them , or to accommodate them to English verse . We must then know what was the metrical system ...
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... ; Italy , where according to the traditions of Latin literature , Saturn , being cast out by Jupiter , had established his king- dom and an age of gold . And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles . All BOOK I. ] 27 PARADISE LOST.
... ; Italy , where according to the traditions of Latin literature , Saturn , being cast out by Jupiter , had established his king- dom and an age of gold . And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles . All BOOK I. ] 27 PARADISE LOST.
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Page 5 - 20 Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
Page 64 - either—black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 87 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 34 - Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those
Page 14 - Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn On man by him seduced, but on himself Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured. 220 Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames, Driven backwards, slope their pointing spires, and, rolled In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale.
Page xxx - 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 Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured.
Page 89 - With that twice battered god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers holy shine ; The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn ; In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thamuz mourn ; "And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread
Page 26 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast : and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment : 1 am the Lord.
Page xxxiii - The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 73 - The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 950