The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... Homer's lamp appear'd , And ages ere the Mantuan fwan was heard : To carry Nature lengths unknown before , To give a MILTON birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rofe and fet at order'd times , And fhot a day - fpring into diftant ...
... Homer's lamp appear'd , And ages ere the Mantuan fwan was heard : To carry Nature lengths unknown before , To give a MILTON birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rofe and fet at order'd times , And fhot a day - fpring into diftant ...
Page xix
... HOMER leads The Epick choir of modern days ; Blind as the Grecian bard , he speeds To realms unknown to Pagan lays : He fings no mortal war : -his strains Defcribe no hero's amorous pains ; He chaunts the birth - day of the world , The ...
... HOMER leads The Epick choir of modern days ; Blind as the Grecian bard , he speeds To realms unknown to Pagan lays : He fings no mortal war : -his strains Defcribe no hero's amorous pains ; He chaunts the birth - day of the world , The ...
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... Homer , to preferve the unity of his action , haftens into the midst of things ; as Horace has obferved . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy ; it is manifeft , that ...
... Homer , to preferve the unity of his action , haftens into the midst of things ; as Horace has obferved . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy ; it is manifeft , that ...
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... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the fame time that great critick and philofopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet by imputing it , in fome measure , to the very nature of ...
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the fame time that great critick and philofopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet by imputing it , in fome measure , to the very nature of ...
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... Homer and Virgil have shown their principal art in this parti- cular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Eneid , were in themselves exceeding fhort , but are fo beautifully extended and diverfified by the invention of epifodes ...
... Homer and Virgil have shown their principal art in this parti- cular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Eneid , were in themselves exceeding fhort , but are fo beautifully extended and diverfified by the invention of epifodes ...
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Page 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Page 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Page 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Page 230 - ... 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 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...