Milton's Paradise Lost ...Macmillan, 1895 |
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Pàgina xi
... story is wild and unauthorized , a com- parison of the plot of Paradise Lost with the contents of the play of Andreini seems to show that the great English poet did not altogether disdain to borrow from the work of this rather obscure ...
... story is wild and unauthorized , a com- parison of the plot of Paradise Lost with the contents of the play of Andreini seems to show that the great English poet did not altogether disdain to borrow from the work of this rather obscure ...
Pàgina xv
... story of the beginning of the world , or whether after all Milton was totally unacquainted with Caedmon's works , is a question that will probably never be decided . All that we can say is that , as far as the uncertain evidence of ...
... story of the beginning of the world , or whether after all Milton was totally unacquainted with Caedmon's works , is a question that will probably never be decided . All that we can say is that , as far as the uncertain evidence of ...
Pàgina xvii
... story of the beginning of the world handed down from generation to generation by the mystery and morality plays of the middle ages . In the more general attempt to determine what English poet chiefly attracted Milton's admiration and ...
... story of the beginning of the world handed down from generation to generation by the mystery and morality plays of the middle ages . In the more general attempt to determine what English poet chiefly attracted Milton's admiration and ...
Pàgina xxiii
... stories , the comparative suitability of which for poetic treatment he had carefully estimated , as we learn from the MS . lists in his own handwriting in the library of Trinity College , Cambridge . This immense subject , including as ...
... stories , the comparative suitability of which for poetic treatment he had carefully estimated , as we learn from the MS . lists in his own handwriting in the library of Trinity College , Cambridge . This immense subject , including as ...
Pàgina 32
... story of Paradise Lost begins in Hell . There on the burning lake lie Satan and his followers who have been driven out of Heaven in consequence of their unsuccessful rebellion against God . After they have long lain motionless , Satan ...
... story of Paradise Lost begins in Hell . There on the burning lake lie Satan and his followers who have been driven out of Heaven in consequence of their unsuccessful rebellion against God . After they have long lain motionless , Satan ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
Adam and Eve adjective adverb Aeneid amphibrach anapaest apposition Asmodeus beauty bower bright called character Cherub clause Compare death DEIGHTON delight derived described Devil Diodorus Siculus earth English evil express F. J. RowE fair fall fallen angels Fiend flowers fruit Gabriel garden Garden of Eden gate genius glory God's Greek happy hast hath Heaven Hell Homer hope Iapetus intransitive Italian Keightley king Latin means MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton Milton's poetry mind misery monosyllable Mozambic natural night noun object pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pare participle passage poet poetical polyptoton previous line Prime Orb Puritan regarded round sapphire Satan scale seems sense sewed shade shows sleep son of Noah spear speech spirit stood suggests sweet syllables taste Tennyson thee thou thought throne thyself transitive verb Tree of Knowledge Uriel verb verse Vondel W. T. WEBB word write وو
Passatges populars
Pàgina 21 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pàgina xxxi - 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...
Pàgina xviii - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Pàgina 4 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Pàgina 4 - Ah wherefore ! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was, In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less, than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due ! yet all his good proved ill in me, And wrought but malice...
Pàgina 11 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone...
Pàgina 16 - That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed Under a shade on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky.
Pàgina 6 - Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Pàgina 24 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious Law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just, and Pure, Relations dear and all the Charities Of Father, Son, and Brother first were known.
Pàgina 4 - Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still received, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...