A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed Mr. Addison's Criticism on Paradise Lost ; with a Preface by the Rev. Mr. DoddJ. and R. Tonson, 1762 - 144 Seiten |
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... Account of every Thing material which relates to them , and had paffed before this fatal Diffenfion . After the fame Manner , Eneas makes his first Ap . pearance in the Tyrrhene Seas , and within the Sight of Italy , because the Action ...
... Account of every Thing material which relates to them , and had paffed before this fatal Diffenfion . After the fame Manner , Eneas makes his first Ap . pearance in the Tyrrhene Seas , and within the Sight of Italy , because the Action ...
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... account of fome fuch Sen- timents . There is no Blemish to be obferved in Vir- gil , under this Head , and but a very few in Milton . I fhall give but one Infiance of this Impropriety of Thought in Homer , and at the fame time com- pare ...
... account of fome fuch Sen- timents . There is no Blemish to be obferved in Vir- gil , under this Head , and but a very few in Milton . I fhall give but one Infiance of this Impropriety of Thought in Homer , and at the fame time com- pare ...
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... Account , as taking up with the firft Phrases that offered , without putting themselves to the Trouble of looking after fuch as would not only be natural , but also elevated and fublime . Milton has but a few Failings in this kind , of ...
... Account , as taking up with the firft Phrases that offered , without putting themselves to the Trouble of looking after fuch as would not only be natural , but also elevated and fublime . Milton has but a few Failings in this kind , of ...
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... Prejudice which fome have taken to his Poem upon this Account ; though after all I must con- fefs , that I think his Stile , though admirable in general , 38 is in fome Places too much stiffened and obfcured by 24 A CRITIQUE upon.
... Prejudice which fome have taken to his Poem upon this Account ; though after all I must con- fefs , that I think his Stile , though admirable in general , 38 is in fome Places too much stiffened and obfcured by 24 A CRITIQUE upon.
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... Account of the Prodigies which pre- ceded the Civil War , he declaims upon the Occafion , and fhews how much happier it would be for Man , if he did not feel his evil Fortune before it comes to pafs , and fuffer not only by its real ...
... Account of the Prodigies which pre- ceded the Civil War , he declaims upon the Occafion , and fhews how much happier it would be for Man , if he did not feel his evil Fortune before it comes to pafs , and fuffer not only by its real ...
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Seite 117 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Seite 74 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 108 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Seite 43 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Seite 31 - Milton seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable, and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by several expedients...
Seite 6 - Troy, and engaged all the gods in factions. ^Eneas's settlement in Italy produced the Caesars and gave birth to the Roman Empire. Milton's subject was still greater than either of the former; it does not determine the fate of single persons or nations, but of a whole species.
Seite 115 - But when such persons are introduced as principal actors, and engaged in a series of adventures, they take too much upon them, and are by no means proper for an heroic poem, which ought to appear credible in its principal parts.
Seite 81 - The author appears in a kind of composed and sedate majesty; and though the sentiments do not give so great an emotion as those in the former book, they abound with as magnificent ideas. The sixth book, like a troubled ocean, represents greatness in confusion; the seventh affects the imagination like the ocean in a calm, and fills the mind of the reader, without producing in it any thing like tumult or agitation.
Seite 134 - I have endeavoured to show how some passages are beautiful by being sublime, others by being soft, others by being natural; which of them are recommended by the passion, which by the moral, which by the sentiment, and which by the expression.
Seite 15 - ... of others. Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments. Milton...