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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... the rather , as it was judged proper to affix Mr. Addifon's inimitable Critique to the Work ; by which Means it is rendered , in fome Measure perfect . Mr. Adilifon's Pa- pers pers will give the Reader a true Tafte for Milton PREFACE .
... the rather , as it was judged proper to affix Mr. Addifon's inimitable Critique to the Work ; by which Means it is rendered , in fome Measure perfect . Mr. Adilifon's Pa- pers pers will give the Reader a true Tafte for Milton PREFACE .
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... give the Reader a true Tafte for Milton , and open to his View the several Graces and Beauties of his Paradife Loft : The explanatory Notes will ferve to remove the particular Difficulties in the Text , and en- able the Reader to ...
... give the Reader a true Tafte for Milton , and open to his View the several Graces and Beauties of his Paradife Loft : The explanatory Notes will ferve to remove the particular Difficulties in the Text , and en- able the Reader to ...
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... give them an Oppor- tunity to understand what they read . The fair Sex in particular will receive great Ad- vantages from it ; and with the fair Sex that Milton can never fail to be a Favourite , who hath so pleasingly described the Hap ...
... give them an Oppor- tunity to understand what they read . The fair Sex in particular will receive great Ad- vantages from it ; and with the fair Sex that Milton can never fail to be a Favourite , who hath so pleasingly described the Hap ...
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... Give place , ye Roman , and ye Grecian Wits . Propert . HERE is nothing in Nature more irk . fome than general Difcourfes , efspecial- ly when they turn chiefly upon Words . For this Reason I fhall wave the Dif cuffion of that Point ...
... Give place , ye Roman , and ye Grecian Wits . Propert . HERE is nothing in Nature more irk . fome than general Difcourfes , efspecial- ly when they turn chiefly upon Words . For this Reason I fhall wave the Dif cuffion of that Point ...
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... gives us at the fame time a Pleafure of the greatest Variety , and of the greatest Simplicity ; uniform in its Nature , though diverfified in the Execution . I must observe also , that as Virgil in the Poem which was defigned to ...
... gives us at the fame time a Pleafure of the greatest Variety , and of the greatest Simplicity ; uniform in its Nature , though diverfified in the Execution . I must observe also , that as Virgil in the Poem which was defigned to ...
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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...