Milton's Paradise Lost ...Macmillan, 1893 |
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Página vii
... poet's wanderings in the fields of old romance have left their traces distinctly in some of the most gorgeous passages of his epic poetry . At one time they seemed likely to determine his ultimate choice . Milton was inclined to follow ...
... poet's wanderings in the fields of old romance have left their traces distinctly in some of the most gorgeous passages of his epic poetry . At one time they seemed likely to determine his ultimate choice . Milton was inclined to follow ...
Página viii
... poet . Indeed , as long as his genius could more directly serve the great cause of political and religious liberty , he seems to have regarded all poetry as a matter of very secondary importance . It was how- ever a great sacrifice to ...
... poet . Indeed , as long as his genius could more directly serve the great cause of political and religious liberty , he seems to have regarded all poetry as a matter of very secondary importance . It was how- ever a great sacrifice to ...
Página ix
... poetry except a few sonnets , many of which were directly suggested by the stirring events of the day . Nevertheless his great purpose , though its com- pletion was indefinitely deferred , was never entirely banished from his mind . In ...
... poetry except a few sonnets , many of which were directly suggested by the stirring events of the day . Nevertheless his great purpose , though its com- pletion was indefinitely deferred , was never entirely banished from his mind . In ...
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... poet was inclined to write a drama upon the subject he had chosen , and Satan's address to the Sun , in the beginning of the fourth book , was originally intended to be the commencement of a tragedy . But , as time went on , he changed ...
... poet was inclined to write a drama upon the subject he had chosen , and Satan's address to the Sun , in the beginning of the fourth book , was originally intended to be the commencement of a tragedy . But , as time went on , he changed ...
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... poet did not altogether disdain to borrow from the work of this rather obscure Italian playwright . Besides a general resemblance between the principal incidents and the characters represented , there are some traces of imitation in ...
... poet did not altogether disdain to borrow from the work of this rather obscure Italian playwright . Besides a general resemblance between the principal incidents and the characters represented , there are some traces of imitation in ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
according adjective adverb Aeneid ancient arms army battle Beelzebub Belial bleating burning burning lake called Chaos Cherubim clause Compare darkness death deep Demogorgon derived described devils dread earth Egypt empyreal epic epithet equivalent eternal ethereal expressed fallen angels fear fire first-born flames force glory gods Greek mythology hath Heaven Hell highth Homer hope horrid hypallage imitating infernal instance intransitive Israelites Jehovah Keightley king lake Latin Mammon meaning MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton mind misery modern English Moloch mortal night nominative absolute noun noun sentence object ordinary pain Paradise Lost participle passage passive pathetic fallacy poem poet poetry preposition punishment race rebel angels regarded reign Satan seems sense Seraphim sound spear speech Spirits suggests supposed Thammuz thee things thou thought throne thunder transitive verb utter verse Virgil Vondel wandering wind wings word worse writers zeugma
Passagens conhecidas
Página 2 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Página 1 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 4 - And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Página 3 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral...
Página 21 - That in our proper motion we ascend 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 ? The...
Página xxv - Spanish poets of prime note, have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página xxv - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Página 37 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Página xxvii - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...