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 pàgines |
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... Lights . Homer , to pre- ferve the Unity of his Action , haftens into the Midst of Things , as Horace has obferved : Had he gone up to Leda's Egg , or begun much later , even at the Rape of Helen , or the Invefting of Troy , it is mani ...
... Lights . Homer , to pre- ferve the Unity of his Action , haftens into the Midst of Things , as Horace has obferved : Had he gone up to Leda's Egg , or begun much later , even at the Rape of Helen , or the Invefting of Troy , it is mani ...
Pàgina 26
... who has not these previous Lights is very often an utter Stranger to what he reads , and apt to put a wrong Interpretation upon it . NOR NOR is it fufficient , that a Man who fets 26 A CRITIQUE upon SPECTATOR, N° 291. ...
... who has not these previous Lights is very often an utter Stranger to what he reads , and apt to put a wrong Interpretation upon it . NOR NOR is it fufficient , that a Man who fets 26 A CRITIQUE upon SPECTATOR, N° 291. ...
Pàgina 27
... Lights , whatever Notions he may have , will lofe himself in Confufion and Obfcurity . I might further obferve , that there is not a Greek or Latin Critic , who has not shewn , even in the Stile of his Criticisms , that he was a Master ...
... Lights , whatever Notions he may have , will lofe himself in Confufion and Obfcurity . I might further obferve , that there is not a Greek or Latin Critic , who has not shewn , even in the Stile of his Criticisms , that he was a Master ...
Pàgina 31
... Light , namely , That the Hero in the Paradife Loft is unfuccefsful , and by no Means a Match for his Enemies . This gave Occafion to Mr. Dryden's Reflexion , that the Devil was in reality Milton's Hero . I think I have obvia- ted this ...
... Light , namely , That the Hero in the Paradife Loft is unfuccefsful , and by no Means a Match for his Enemies . This gave Occafion to Mr. Dryden's Reflexion , that the Devil was in reality Milton's Hero . I think I have obvia- ted this ...
Pàgina 37
... Light , And boldly challenge the most piercing Eye . Hor . ROSCOM . Have seen in the Works of a modern Philofopher , a Map of the Spots in the Sun. My laft Paper of the Faults and Blemishes in Milton's Paradife Loft , may be confidered ...
... Light , And boldly challenge the most piercing Eye . Hor . ROSCOM . Have seen in the Works of a modern Philofopher , a Map of the Spots in the Sun. My laft Paper of the Faults and Blemishes in Milton's Paradife Loft , may be confidered ...
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Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 43 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Pàgina 31 - Milton seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable, and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by several expedients...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 15 - ... of others. Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments. Milton...