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... Song by Mr. T. ( w . 1767 ) , in J. Nichols's Collection ( 1780 ) , viii . 135 : But let me with reverence kneel O'er the grave of the greatest in verse . • Charles Gildon's continuation of Langbaine's English Dramatick Poets ( 1699 ) ...
... Song by Mr. T. ( w . 1767 ) , in J. Nichols's Collection ( 1780 ) , viii . 135 : But let me with reverence kneel O'er the grave of the greatest in verse . • Charles Gildon's continuation of Langbaine's English Dramatick Poets ( 1699 ) ...
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... song " ; the " List of Dramatic Poets " appended to Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg ( 1747 ) , where Paradise Lost is called " the finest Piece in the English Language " ( noted by Good , pp . 127-8 ) ; Catharine Macaulay's Modest Plea for ...
... song " ; the " List of Dramatic Poets " appended to Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg ( 1747 ) , where Paradise Lost is called " the finest Piece in the English Language " ( noted by Good , pp . 127-8 ) ; Catharine Macaulay's Modest Plea for ...
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... Song " which is " As Spencer sweet , as Milton strong . " 4 Lady Mary Montagu , with whom Pope flirted and quarrelled , at- tacked " the thraldom of monastic rhymes " and praised " the beau- ties of each living page " of Milton's poem ...
... Song " which is " As Spencer sweet , as Milton strong . " 4 Lady Mary Montagu , with whom Pope flirted and quarrelled , at- tacked " the thraldom of monastic rhymes " and praised " the beau- ties of each living page " of Milton's poem ...
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... song , With sacred silent wonder smit ; While , monarch of the tuneful throng , HOMER in rapture throws his trumpet down And to the Briton gives his amaranthine crown.2 Even the conservative Critical Review remarked that the works of ...
... song , With sacred silent wonder smit ; While , monarch of the tuneful throng , HOMER in rapture throws his trumpet down And to the Briton gives his amaranthine crown.2 Even the conservative Critical Review remarked that the works of ...
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... Song on May Morning and the hymn of Adam and Eve were set to music and " performed " ; Lycidas was presented as a " musical entertain- 1 See Bibl . I , 1761 ( Pietas Oxon . ) . Two of the other collections of 1761 and 1762 each contain ...
... Song on May Morning and the hymn of Adam and Eve were set to music and " performed " ; Lycidas was presented as a " musical entertain- 1 See Bibl . I , 1761 ( Pietas Oxon . ) . Two of the other collections of 1761 and 1762 each contain ...
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The Influence of Milton on English Poetry, Volume 1 Raymond Dexter Havens Visualização integral - 1922 |
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Página 187 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved; Nor uniformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...
Página 180 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 86 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.
Página 577 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Página 194 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With...
Página 579 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
Página 578 - 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 595 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 232 - His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Página 584 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...