Milton & His PoetryGeorge G. Harrap & Company, 1912 - 184 Seiten |
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... , will be found useful to teachers and students of literature , and no less to the general lover of English poetry . WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON 1 t it IN WHOLE On the Morning of Christ's Nativity L'Allegro Il 7 GENERAL PREFACE.
... , will be found useful to teachers and students of literature , and no less to the general lover of English poetry . WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON 1 t it IN WHOLE On the Morning of Christ's Nativity L'Allegro Il 7 GENERAL PREFACE.
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... English religious opinion . But as on the one side there were those who opposed any change , so on the other there were a few dissentients who early began to complain of their leaders ' timidity and want of thoroughness . To these more ...
... English religious opinion . But as on the one side there were those who opposed any change , so on the other there were a few dissentients who early began to complain of their leaders ' timidity and want of thoroughness . To these more ...
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... English society . Into the various controversies which arose concerning theological tenets , Church discipline , and forms of worship we need not here enter . But stress must be laid upon two important points . In the first place , the ...
... English society . Into the various controversies which arose concerning theological tenets , Church discipline , and forms of worship we need not here enter . But stress must be laid upon two important points . In the first place , the ...
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... English society is on the face of it evident . It is by reference to it , indeed , that we can largely explain the enormous difference which separates the England of the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the England which saw the ...
... English society is on the face of it evident . It is by reference to it , indeed , that we can largely explain the enormous difference which separates the England of the middle of the reign of Elizabeth from the England which saw the ...
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... English life and thought during the second quarter of the seventeenth century . My slight sketch is in- tended only to prepare the way for the study of the great poet whose writings we are now to take up together . Milton has been ...
... English life and thought during the second quarter of the seventeenth century . My slight sketch is in- tended only to prepare the way for the study of the great poet whose writings we are now to take up together . Milton has been ...
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Æneid Angel Areopagitica beauty blind bow'r Brother called character charm Church classical Comus Cromwell dark daughter Defensio delight Diodati divine doth earth Elder elegy England English epic eternal ev'n ev'ry evil eyes fair faith flocks genius Goddess Greek hast hath Heav'n ideal Il Penseroso influence inspired John Milton Jove king L'Allegro Lady learning liberty light literature live Lycidas Mark Pattison Masson Milton mind MONODY moral Muse never night noble Nymph o'er Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage passion pastoral peace Penseroso poem poet poet's poetic poetry pow'r praise prose pure Puritan reader religious remaining Renaissance Samson Agonistes shades Shepherd sing Smectymnuus song sonnet soul spirit Stopford Brooke sweet temper thee thence things Thomas Ellwood thou thought tion tragedy verse virgin virtue William Henry Hudson wings writings young youth
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Seite 51 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Seite 105 - What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Seite 91 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks, Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance: Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have. Listen and save.
Seite 52 - Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest, saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke, Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Seite 29 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Seite 179 - What th' unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns And to his faithful Champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns And all that band them to resist His uncontroulable intent, His servants he with new acquist Of true experience from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent.
Seite 50 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Seite 169 - 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?
Seite 108 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Seite 132 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.