A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1926 - 304 pagina's |
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... poetic genius . The present volume deals with these matters all too briefly . It will , however , at least guide the reader to the most important of them and it will be justified if it as- sists him to see Milton in clearer focus as the ...
... poetic genius . The present volume deals with these matters all too briefly . It will , however , at least guide the reader to the most important of them and it will be justified if it as- sists him to see Milton in clearer focus as the ...
Pagina 8
... poems was issued in 1673. Milton died of gout Novem- ber 8 , 1674 , and was buried in St. Giles , Cripplegate , beside his father . His three daughters and his widow survived him , the latter dying in 1727. The last of Mil- ton's known ...
... poems was issued in 1673. Milton died of gout Novem- ber 8 , 1674 , and was buried in St. Giles , Cripplegate , beside his father . His three daughters and his widow survived him , the latter dying in 1727. The last of Mil- ton's known ...
Pagina 18
... Poems and refers to the 1637 edition of Comus , a copy of which Milton had sent to his new friend . Mr. H. is probably John Hales of Eton . " The late R. " is Thomas Randolph , though no copy of his poems bound with Comus is known . The ...
... Poems and refers to the 1637 edition of Comus , a copy of which Milton had sent to his new friend . Mr. H. is probably John Hales of Eton . " The late R. " is Thomas Randolph , though no copy of his poems bound with Comus is known . The ...
Pagina 23
... Poem of the Trojan War continued from Homer ; Apollonius Rhodius his Argonautics : and in prose , Plutarch's Placita Philosophorum , and repì Taidŵv ' Aywyías ; Geminus's Astronomy ; Xenophon's Cyri In- stitutio , and Anabasis ; Elian's ...
... Poem of the Trojan War continued from Homer ; Apollonius Rhodius his Argonautics : and in prose , Plutarch's Placita Philosophorum , and repì Taidŵv ' Aywyías ; Geminus's Astronomy ; Xenophon's Cyri In- stitutio , and Anabasis ; Elian's ...
Pagina 39
... poem , entitled , Para- dise Lost ; the noblest in the general esteem of learned and judicious persons , of any yet written by any either ancient or modern . This subject was first designed a tragedy , and in the fourth book of the poem ...
... poem , entitled , Para- dise Lost ; the noblest in the general esteem of learned and judicious persons , of any yet written by any either ancient or modern . This subject was first designed a tragedy , and in the fourth book of the poem ...
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Pagina 40 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Pagina 238 - 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...
Pagina 147 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Pagina 277 - 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...
Pagina 281 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus commenting that book is sufficient to confirm.
Pagina 242 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees...
Pagina 39 - 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...
Pagina 240 - Warred on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Pagina 259 - The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the...
Pagina 69 - Colasterion ; a Reply to A nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...