Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes, Página 108,Volumen1James Nichol, 1853 |
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... English sense of that word ; and Milton in his solitary walks gathered ma- terials for his descriptions of nature , and we find the groves and fields of Buckinghamshire reproduced not only in the scenery viii LIFE OF JOHN MILTON .
... English sense of that word ; and Milton in his solitary walks gathered ma- terials for his descriptions of nature , and we find the groves and fields of Buckinghamshire reproduced not only in the scenery viii LIFE OF JOHN MILTON .
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... natural and artistic beauties which gathers round the city of Athens ; nay , that he had not extended his tour eastwards to those awful lands which must far oftener have visited his dreams , where Siloa's brook still flows , where ...
... natural and artistic beauties which gathers round the city of Athens ; nay , that he had not extended his tour eastwards to those awful lands which must far oftener have visited his dreams , where Siloa's brook still flows , where ...
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... nature to another task ; " and that in this he had but the " use , as it were , of his left hand . " He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies , " and had yet long enough ...
... nature to another task ; " and that in this he had but the " use , as it were , of his left hand . " He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies , " and had yet long enough ...
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... Doctrine . One is utterly amazed at the industry , the determination , the energy , the power of mind and memory , the almost miraculous concentration , as well as the multiformity of nature which LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . XXV.
... Doctrine . One is utterly amazed at the industry , the determination , the energy , the power of mind and memory , the almost miraculous concentration , as well as the multiformity of nature which LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . XXV.
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... nature which these works evince . He seems one of his own angels , now talking familiarly to Adam , and now plucking up , and tossing to and fro , the rooted hills of heaven . " Truly , " says Johnson , " he was born for whatever was ...
... nature which these works evince . He seems one of his own angels , now talking familiarly to Adam , and now plucking up , and tossing to and fro , the rooted hills of heaven . " Truly , " says Johnson , " he was born for whatever was ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adramelech Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms Aroer aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flowers fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill Imaus John Milton join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah Milton morn night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Paradise Lost pass'd peace pleas'd praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shalt Sibma sight Smectymnuus soon sovran spake Spirits St Paul's school stars stood sweet taste Telassar thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder
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Página 22 - 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 ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 12 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 247 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ;...
Página 104 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...
Página 3 - 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, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Página 145 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 20 - At which the universal host up-sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving: with them, rose A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Página 202 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here...
Página 210 - Yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.