The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 542 pages |
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... poet so wonderfully to enrich and adorn his beautiful production . These classic gems of thought and expres- sion ... poets ; and who may have a taste for observing the coin- cidences between their language and that of the great master ...
... poet so wonderfully to enrich and adorn his beautiful production . These classic gems of thought and expres- sion ... poets ; and who may have a taste for observing the coin- cidences between their language and that of the great master ...
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... poet can possibly commit in the manage- ment of his machinery , is that of attempting to philosophise too much . Milton has been often censured for ascribing to spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these ...
... poet can possibly commit in the manage- ment of his machinery , is that of attempting to philosophise too much . Milton has been often censured for ascribing to spirits many functions of which spirits must be incapable . But these ...
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... poet who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful failure , still , however , there was another extreme , which , though one less dangerous , was also to be ...
... poet who should affect that metaphysical accuracy for the want of which Milton has been blamed , would escape a disgraceful failure , still , however , there was another extreme , which , though one less dangerous , was also to be ...
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... poets neither mean , nor desire to be thought to mean , anything seriously . But the Holy Spirit , here invoked , is ... poet is liable to the charge of enthu- siasm ; having expected from the Divine Spirit a kind and degree of inspira ...
... poets neither mean , nor desire to be thought to mean , anything seriously . But the Holy Spirit , here invoked , is ... poet is liable to the charge of enthu- siasm ; having expected from the Divine Spirit a kind and degree of inspira ...
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... poet runs on with the hint until he has raised out of it some brilliant image or senti- ment adapted to inflame the mind of the reader and to give it that sublime kind of entertainment which is suitable to the nature of an heroic poem ...
... poet runs on with the hint until he has raised out of it some brilliant image or senti- ment adapted to inflame the mind of the reader and to give it that sublime kind of entertainment which is suitable to the nature of an heroic poem ...
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Page 8 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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 104 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 17 - 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 Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 92 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 174 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 175 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 76 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 199 - The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Page 90 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 50 - The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.