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Página viii
... readers . He did for Milton what Aristophanes did for Socrates , effaced the real man and replaced him by a distorted and degrading caricature . ' ( Pattison , Milton , p . 219. ) The unfairness of Johnson's account lies in the fact ...
... readers . He did for Milton what Aristophanes did for Socrates , effaced the real man and replaced him by a distorted and degrading caricature . ' ( Pattison , Milton , p . 219. ) The unfairness of Johnson's account lies in the fact ...
Página x
... reader sickened at the mention of crooks and pipes . Nor was he altogether wrong when he detected a certain lack of genuine affection in Milton's lament for King , for there is far more tenderness in Milton's grief for the loss of his ...
... reader sickened at the mention of crooks and pipes . Nor was he altogether wrong when he detected a certain lack of genuine affection in Milton's lament for King , for there is far more tenderness in Milton's grief for the loss of his ...
Página xi
... readers of every class think it necessary to be pleased . ' ( Lives of the Poets , ii . 406 ; ed . 1794. ) In his own criticism of ' Paradise Lost ' he is very often in agreement with Addison . Instances of this , and cases in which ...
... readers of every class think it necessary to be pleased . ' ( Lives of the Poets , ii . 406 ; ed . 1794. ) In his own criticism of ' Paradise Lost ' he is very often in agreement with Addison . Instances of this , and cases in which ...
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... readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in everything else which he under- 5 took , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to ...
... readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in everything else which he under- 5 took , he laboured with great diligence , there is no reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to ...
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... readers , it may be 30 sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 - that is , forty - one years - with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand ...
... readers , it may be 30 sufficient to remark , that the nation had been satisfied from 1623 to 1664 - that is , forty - one years - with only two editions of the works of Shakespeare , which probably did not together make one thousand ...
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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
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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.