The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon1855 |
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... poets , if we have any other aim in reading them than mere amuse- ment , we must voluntarily subject ourselves to the same ... poetry " is produced not so much by what it ex- presses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas it ...
... poets , if we have any other aim in reading them than mere amuse- ment , we must voluntarily subject ourselves to the same ... poetry " is produced not so much by what it ex- presses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas it ...
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... poets equal to any that stand on the roll of Greek or Roman fame . As regards those who are not to be sub- jected to the mental training that the study of a dead or foreign tongue supplies , the next best thing is to make them ...
... poets equal to any that stand on the roll of Greek or Roman fame . As regards those who are not to be sub- jected to the mental training that the study of a dead or foreign tongue supplies , the next best thing is to make them ...
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... poets , if we have any other aim in reading them than mere amuse- ment , we must voluntarily subject ourselves to the same ... poetry " is produced not so much by what it ex- presses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas it ...
... poets , if we have any other aim in reading them than mere amuse- ment , we must voluntarily subject ourselves to the same ... poetry " is produced not so much by what it ex- presses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas it ...
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... poets whom Milton followed , as well as from his own prose works , have been adduced , as far as the limits which I had assigned to my- self would allow ; and the fruit of a pretty extensive course of miscellaneous reading has been ...
... poets whom Milton followed , as well as from his own prose works , have been adduced , as far as the limits which I had assigned to my- self would allow ; and the fruit of a pretty extensive course of miscellaneous reading has been ...
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... poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with . " - CARLYLE . " Three poets in three distant ages born Greece , Italy , and England did adorn The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next ...
... poets who are accounted perfect ; whom it were a kind of treason to find fault with . " - CARLYLE . " Three poets in three distant ages born Greece , Italy , and England did adorn The first in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The next ...
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The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon John Milton Visualização integral - 1855 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam adjective alliteration Almighty ancient angels arms beautiful Beelzebub Belial bliss called Cocytus creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful earth Egypt Elealeh ellipsis eternal evil eyes Faerie Queene Father fell Fiend fire flames flowers gates glory Gods grace Greek happy hath Heaven heavenly Hell honour hope human Iliad imitated infernal Jupiter king labour Latin less light living means Milton mind Moloch mortal nature night nominative absolute noun o'er Ovid pain Paneas Paradise Lost passage periphrasis Phlegethon Phlegra pleonasm poet poetry prose rage reign round sacred Satan says Scylla seat seems sense Shakspeare shape side sight signifying sleep spake spear Spenser Spirits stood Styx sublime sweet Thammuz Thamyris thee thence thing thither thou thought throne tion verb Virgil wander whence winds wings word
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Página 7 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe; Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Página 158 - 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...
Página 139 - Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 159 - 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.
Página 5 - ... to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren 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 157 - Unargued I obey : So God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Página 58 - A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Página 38 - 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 144 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure— Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, Whence true authority in men...
Página 125 - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.