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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Pàgina iv
... first Character in the learned World , to compile a fhort and com- prehensive Explanation of the difficult Words and Paffages in Milton's poetical Works , di- gefted in Alphabetical Order ; which might serve to the common Reader ...
... first Character in the learned World , to compile a fhort and com- prehensive Explanation of the difficult Words and Paffages in Milton's poetical Works , di- gefted in Alphabetical Order ; which might serve to the common Reader ...
Pàgina 4
... first Ap . pearance in the Tyrrhene Seas , and within the Sight of Italy , because the Action propofed to be celebra- ted was that of his fettling himself in Latium . But because it was neceffary for the Reader to know what had happened ...
... first Ap . pearance in the Tyrrhene Seas , and within the Sight of Italy , because the Action propofed to be celebra- ted was that of his fettling himself in Latium . But because it was neceffary for the Reader to know what had happened ...
Pàgina 9
... first Race of Heroes . His principal Actor is the Son of a Goddefs , not to mention the Offspring of other Deities , who have likewife a Place in his Poem , and the venerable Trojan Prince who was the Fa sher of fo many Kings and Heroes ...
... first Race of Heroes . His principal Actor is the Son of a Goddefs , not to mention the Offspring of other Deities , who have likewife a Place in his Poem , and the venerable Trojan Prince who was the Fa sher of fo many Kings and Heroes ...
Pàgina 10
... Guilt and Infirmity . The two laft Characters are , indeed , very common and obvious , but the two first are not only more magnificent , but more new than any Cha- racters Facters either in Virgil or Homer , or indeed in -10 A CRITIQUE ...
... Guilt and Infirmity . The two laft Characters are , indeed , very common and obvious , but the two first are not only more magnificent , but more new than any Cha- racters Facters either in Virgil or Homer , or indeed in -10 A CRITIQUE ...
Pàgina 17
... first are fuch as are affected and unnatural ; the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar . As for the firft Kind of Thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : He has none of those trifling Points and Pue ...
... first are fuch as are affected and unnatural ; the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar . As for the firft Kind of Thoughts , we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : He has none of those trifling Points and Pue ...
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A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ... John Milton Visualització completa - 1762 |
A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ... William Dodd,Joseph Addison Visualització completa - 1762 |
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Affembly Afia againſt alfo alſo ancient Angels appear Ariftotle Author beautiful becauſe Boeotia Book Circumftance Creation defcending defcribed Defcription Earth Eneid Epiſode Expreffion Fable faid fame fays fecond feems fent feveral fhall fhews fhort fhould fignifies fince firft firſt flain fmall fo called fome fometimes fpeaking ftill ftone fublime fuch fufficient fuitable fuppofed Gods greateſt Greek Heaven Hell Heroic Poem himſelf Homer Iliad Imagination Imaus infernal itſelf Judea Jupiter Kind King laft laſt likewife Mankind Meaſure Milton Moabites moft moſt mountain muſt Nature obferved Occafion Ophion Ovid Padan-Aram Paffage paffed Paffion Paradife Loft particular Perfia Perfons Place pleafing Pleaſure Pluto Poet poetical Poetry racters raiſed Reader Reaſon reprefented rifing river Satan Sentiments ſeveral ſhe Speech Spirit thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe Thoughts Turnus uſed Verfe Vifion Virgil weft whofe Words
Passatges populars
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...