The Life of John Milton |
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It would seem that to a Greek or a Roman ear the immediate sequence of the
strong consonants in question suspended the voice on the preceding short vowel
; but not in that degree as to make inattention to its effect an unpardonable
offence ...
It would seem that to a Greek or a Roman ear the immediate sequence of the
strong consonants in question suspended the voice on the preceding short vowel
; but not in that degree as to make inattention to its effect an unpardonable
offence ...
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... year to his former preceptor Young ; and the seventh , in which the poet , at the
age of nineteen , describes with tenderness and sensibility the transient effects of
love upon his bosom , must be admitted to very high and distinguished praise .
... year to his former preceptor Young ; and the seventh , in which the poet , at the
age of nineteen , describes with tenderness and sensibility the transient effects of
love upon his bosom , must be admitted to very high and distinguished praise .
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To speak accurately , the mind of Shakspeare could not create ; and that of Milton
invented with equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the “
Tempest , ” or the “ Midsummer's Night's Dream , ” a higher flight of the inventive ...
To speak accurately , the mind of Shakspeare could not create ; and that of Milton
invented with equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the “
Tempest , ” or the “ Midsummer's Night's Dream , ” a higher flight of the inventive ...
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Another passage , which represents the effect of the Lady's singing with a
different allusion , is not liable to any objection , and is altogether admirable : At
last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose , like a steam of rich distilld
perfumes ...
Another passage , which represents the effect of the Lady's singing with a
different allusion , is not liable to any objection , and is altogether admirable : At
last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose , like a steam of rich distilld
perfumes ...
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They were unquestionably composed in the happiest humour of the poet's mind ,
when his fancy was all sunshine and no cloud , or , to obstruct her view , Star
interposed .. We may contemplate them not as the effects or qualities , ( if the ...
They were unquestionably composed in the happiest humour of the poet's mind ,
when his fancy was all sunshine and no cloud , or , to obstruct her view , Star
interposed .. We may contemplate them not as the effects or qualities , ( if the ...
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Página 161 - 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 212 - 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...
Página 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Página 293 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Página 406 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Página 519 - 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 196 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 264 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Página 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Life of John Milton |
| Autor | Charles Symmons |
| Edición | 2 |
| Editor | Nichols and Son, 1810 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 24 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 646 páginas |
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