Paradise Lost, Libros 1-2Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1896 - 210 páginas |
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... beginnings . He would have great . literature more deeply understood than is possible through such processes as have been sketched above . • We must learn , ' he says , ' to speak and write English ; then we must study it in the seats ...
... beginnings . He would have great . literature more deeply understood than is possible through such processes as have been sketched above . • We must learn , ' he says , ' to speak and write English ; then we must study it in the seats ...
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... beginning of a tragoedie , wch he had design'd , but was diverted from it by other besinesse . ' Here we have indirectly Phil- lips's own authority that he had read the verses in question at a date which we shall presently see reason to ...
... beginning of a tragoedie , wch he had design'd , but was diverted from it by other besinesse . ' Here we have indirectly Phil- lips's own authority that he had read the verses in question at a date which we shall presently see reason to ...
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... beginning to end with citations from the Bible . Milton must have almost had the Bible by heart ; and , besides that some passages of his poem , where he is keep- ing close to the Bible as his authority , are avowedly coagu- lations of ...
... beginning to end with citations from the Bible . Milton must have almost had the Bible by heart ; and , besides that some passages of his poem , where he is keep- ing close to the Bible as his authority , are avowedly coagu- lations of ...
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... beginning , for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time — which , being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and ...
... beginning , for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time — which , being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and ...
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... beginnings . He seems always to start full - sail ; the wind and tide always serve ; there is never any fluttering of the can- And the poem never becomes incoherent ; we feel all through it , as in the symphonies of Beethoven , a great ...
... beginnings . He seems always to start full - sail ; the wind and tide always serve ; there is never any fluttering of the can- And the poem never becomes incoherent ; we feel all through it , as in the symphonies of Beethoven , a great ...
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Abyss Adam Almighty ancient Angels arms battle Beelzebub Belial Ben Jonson Bible bright called Chaos Chimæra Chorus Cicero Comus Dante darkness Death deep Define Demogorgon divine dread earth Edited English epic Eternal evil Exod fate fear fierce fiery fire flames force glory gods gold Greek hath Heaven heavenly Hell Hesiod highth Homer host Iliad infernal King Landor Latin light literature Lord Lowell Mammon meaning mighty Milton mind Moloch Night o'er once Ormus Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry Prometheus Bound prose reign revenge rock round Satan says sense Seraphim Shak Shakespeare sound spear speech Spenser Spirits stood style sublime Tartarus Tasso Thammuz thee thence Theog things thou thought throne thunder tion Transferred epithet translation verb verse Virgil winds wings word Zeus
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Página 38 - 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.
Página 62 - 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.
Página 53 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Página 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Página 102 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Página 70 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Página 57 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Página 21 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...