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 стор. |
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... fall under nei ther of these Cenfures : And as it is at once fhort , clear , and full ; published with the best Design , and fubfervient to a very va- luable End , we doubt not , that the Public will receive it favourably . I must take ...
... fall under nei ther of these Cenfures : And as it is at once fhort , clear , and full ; published with the best Design , and fubfervient to a very va- luable End , we doubt not , that the Public will receive it favourably . I must take ...
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... falls fhort of the Iliad or Eneid , in the Beauties which are effential to that Kind of Writing . The firft Thing to be confidered in an Epic Poem , is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates ...
... falls fhort of the Iliad or Eneid , in the Beauties which are effential to that Kind of Writing . The firft Thing to be confidered in an Epic Poem , is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the Action which it relates ...
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... Fall . of Man which is the Action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those Great Actions , the Battle of the ... Fall of Man , has related the Fall of thofe Angels who are his profeffed Enemies . Befide the many other Beauties in fuch ...
... Fall . of Man which is the Action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those Great Actions , the Battle of the ... Fall of Man , has related the Fall of thofe Angels who are his profeffed Enemies . Befide the many other Beauties in fuch ...
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... Fall of Man , as it is related in Scripture . Be- fides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the Truth with Fiction , as they were in no Danger of offending the Religion of their Country by it . But as for Milton , he had not ...
... Fall of Man , as it is related in Scripture . Be- fides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the Truth with Fiction , as they were in no Danger of offending the Religion of their Country by it . But as for Milton , he had not ...
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... falls infinitely fhort of Homer in the Characters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect Character , but as for Achates , tho ' he is filed the Heroe's Friend , he does nothing in the whole Poem ...
... falls infinitely fhort of Homer in the Characters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect Character , but as for Achates , tho ' he is filed the Heroe's Friend , he does nothing in the whole Poem ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 43 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Сторінка 31 - Milton seems to have been sensible of this imperfection in his fable, and has therefore endeavoured to cure it by several expedients...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 15 - ... of others. Virgil has excelled all others in the propriety of his sentiments. Milton...