Milton's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: An EssayYale University Press, 1924 - 342 páginas |
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... thou rather pure ethereal stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens , thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep , Won from the void ...
... thou rather pure ethereal stream , Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun , Before the Heavens , thou wert , and at the voice Of God , as with a mantle , didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep , Won from the void ...
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... ' of the sombre regions into which he and his companions have been hurled , and puzzled by the darkened figure of Beelzebub , thus addresses him : If thou beest he - but oh , how fallen LIGHT AND DARKNESS IN MILTON 21.
... ' of the sombre regions into which he and his companions have been hurled , and puzzled by the darkened figure of Beelzebub , thus addresses him : If thou beest he - but oh , how fallen LIGHT AND DARKNESS IN MILTON 21.
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An Essay Ida Langdon. If thou beest he - but oh , how fallen ! how changed From him who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! 1 Within a few lines Satan admits that ...
An Essay Ida Langdon. If thou beest he - but oh , how fallen ! how changed From him who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! 1 Within a few lines Satan admits that ...
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... thou no more wast good , Departed from thee ; and thou resemblest now Thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul.2 From this rebuke Satan perceives that his lustre is now ' visibly impaired , ' but he does not so much bewail the ' love ...
... thou no more wast good , Departed from thee ; and thou resemblest now Thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul.2 From this rebuke Satan perceives that his lustre is now ' visibly impaired , ' but he does not so much bewail the ' love ...
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... thou art called , whose voice divine Following , above the Olympian hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning , not the name , I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine , nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but ...
... thou art called , whose voice divine Following , above the Olympian hill I soar , Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning , not the name , I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine , nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but ...
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Página 175 - 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 271 - 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...
Página 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 17 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun,— Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 307 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Página 36 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Página 206 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, — Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, — That Orpheus...
Página 198 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Página 200 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose ; Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
Página 22 - Their dread commander : 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 arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...