Milton's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art: An EssayYale University Press, 1924 - 342 стор. |
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... true that the great modern poets , cherishing a philo- sophical tradition that goes back through Aristotle to Plato , have modified their theory and practice in harmony with a belief in the law of form , and , by conscious endeavor or ...
... true that the great modern poets , cherishing a philo- sophical tradition that goes back through Aristotle to Plato , have modified their theory and practice in harmony with a belief in the law of form , and , by conscious endeavor or ...
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... true essence thereof is dissolved ? ' To Milton , then , things are the expression of their inner spirit , or , to put it another way , they are what in the ful- lest sense they do . His conviction goes far toward placing him as a ...
... true essence thereof is dissolved ? ' To Milton , then , things are the expression of their inner spirit , or , to put it another way , they are what in the ful- lest sense they do . His conviction goes far toward placing him as a ...
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... true birth , stumbling on abuse . ' Milton frequently employs the adjective ridiculous to designate the state of absurdity resulting from uselessness or misuse . See the following examples : [ The law ] ' reducing itself to the state of ...
... true birth , stumbling on abuse . ' Milton frequently employs the adjective ridiculous to designate the state of absurdity resulting from uselessness or misuse . See the following examples : [ The law ] ' reducing itself to the state of ...
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... true poem . ' From his boyhood , he knew but one ambition ; his intentions and motives were defined ; he was to be student and poet , that is , in the most exalted sense of the word , teacher . For this career he needed learning , and ...
... true poem . ' From his boyhood , he knew but one ambition ; his intentions and motives were defined ; he was to be student and poet , that is , in the most exalted sense of the word , teacher . For this career he needed learning , and ...
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... true virtue , which being united to the heavenly grace of faith , makes up the highest perfection . " From this ideal of learning sprang the conception of a particular task which should give an animating purpose to his life . The ...
... true virtue , which being united to the heavenly grace of faith , makes up the highest perfection . " From this ideal of learning sprang the conception of a particular task which should give an animating purpose to his life . The ...
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Сторінка 175 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Сторінка 17 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...
Сторінка 271 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Сторінка 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Сторінка 307 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Сторінка 229 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue. Thou honour'st verse, and verse must lend her wing To honour thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, That tun'st their happiest lines in hymn or...
Сторінка 36 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Сторінка 278 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Сторінка 198 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Сторінка 200 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose ; Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...