Criticism on Milton's Paradise Lost. From 'The Spectator.' 31 December, 1711-3 May, 1712A. Murray & son., 1868 - 152 pages |
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... Reason of Church government urg'd against Prelatry , to show how little delight he had in that which he believed God by his Secretary conscience injoyned ' upon him therein ; he thus magni- ficently announces his self - dedication to ...
... Reason of Church government urg'd against Prelatry , to show how little delight he had in that which he believed God by his Secretary conscience injoyned ' upon him therein ; he thus magni- ficently announces his self - dedication to ...
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... reason hath pluckt from me by an abortive and foredated dis- covery . And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above mans to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ways endeavour'd , and with more unwearied spirit ...
... reason hath pluckt from me by an abortive and foredated dis- covery . And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a power above mans to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ways endeavour'd , and with more unwearied spirit ...
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... Reason when I draw any faulty Character , I confider all those Perfons to whom the Malice of the World may poffibly apply it , and take care to dash it with fuch particular Circumstances as may prevent all fuch ill - natured ...
... Reason when I draw any faulty Character , I confider all those Perfons to whom the Malice of the World may poffibly apply it , and take care to dash it with fuch particular Circumstances as may prevent all fuch ill - natured ...
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... Reason I have never glanced upon the late defigned Proceffion of his Holinefs and his Attendants , notwithstanding ... Reasons I am astonished , that those who have appeared against this Paper have made fo very little of it . The ...
... Reason I have never glanced upon the late defigned Proceffion of his Holinefs and his Attendants , notwithstanding ... Reasons I am astonished , that those who have appeared against this Paper have made fo very little of it . The ...
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... Reason I fhall wave the Difcuffion of that Point which was started fome Years fince , Whether Milton's Paradife Loft may be called an Heroick Poem ? Those who will not give it that Title , may call it ( if they please ) a Divine Poem ...
... Reason I fhall wave the Difcuffion of that Point which was started fome Years fince , Whether Milton's Paradife Loft may be called an Heroick Poem ? Those who will not give it that Title , may call it ( if they please ) a Divine Poem ...
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Page 85 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 4 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 4 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 137 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 3 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 141 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 53 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 3 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home in the spacious circuits of her musing hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting: whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 104 - Said then the omnific Word, your discord end. Nor stay'd ; but, on the wings of cherubim Uplifted, in paternal glory rode Far into Chaos and the world unborn ; For Chaos heard his voice. Him all his train Follow'd in bright procession to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might.
Page 4 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church...