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Página ix
... admire anything which he does not sincerely feel to be admirable , says honestly what he thinks , and gives reasons for his opinions . To everything he impartially applies the same standards , and tests all varieties of poetry by their ...
... admire anything which he does not sincerely feel to be admirable , says honestly what he thinks , and gives reasons for his opinions . To everything he impartially applies the same standards , and tests all varieties of poetry by their ...
Página xi
... admired , and the poem still have been neglected ; but by the blandishments of gentleness and facility he has made Milton an universal favourite with whom readers of every class think it necessary to be pleased . ' ( Lives of the Poets ...
... admired , and the poem still have been neglected ; but by the blandishments of gentleness and facility he has made Milton an universal favourite with whom readers of every class think it necessary to be pleased . ' ( Lives of the Poets ...
Página 14
... out of sickness ; but before it will be well with her , she must vomit with strong physic . The university , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I never greatly admired , but 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... out of sickness ; but before it will be well with her , she must vomit with strong physic . The university , in the time of her better health , and my younger judgment , I never greatly admired , but 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Página 15
Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. my younger judgment , I never greatly admired , but now .. much less . This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct ...
Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. my younger judgment , I never greatly admired , but now .. much less . This is surely the language of a man who thinks that he has been injured . He proceeds to describe the course of his conduct ...
Página 22
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which however he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attend- ance scarce less ...
... admiration , a little praise of his antagonist would be sufficiently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which however he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of attend- ance scarce less ...
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Adam Addison admired afterwards angels answer appears Areopagitica Aubrey Bentley blank verse blind called censure character Chorus Church College Comus copies Cowley criticism daughter death defence Defensio Secunda delight diction Dryden edition of Milton's Edward Phillips Eikon Basilike elegance elegies Ellwood English entitled epic friends given by Masson heroic poem honour Il Penseroso Italian John Milton Johnson King labour language Latin learning letters Lives Long Parliament Lycidas married Martin Bucer Milton's Poems mind minor poems moral Morus nature never notes opinion pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage passion Penseroso perhaps pleasure poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface prefixed printed probably Prose published reader reason regicides remarks rhyme Salmasius Samson Agonistes Satan says Second Edition seems Smectymnuus Sonnets Spectator Spenser style Thomas thought tion Toland tragedy translation treatise truth W. W. SKEAT write written wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Página 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Página 101 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Página 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Página 14 - 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...
Página 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Página 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Página 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.