Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... Greeks are , or Virgil , or Dante . The number of such masters is so limited that a man acquires a world - rank in poetry and art , instead of a mere local rank , by being counted to them . But Milton's importance to us Englishmen , by ...
... Greeks are , or Virgil , or Dante . The number of such masters is so limited that a man acquires a world - rank in poetry and art , instead of a mere local rank , by being counted to them . But Milton's importance to us Englishmen , by ...
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... 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 metre ; graced indeed since ...
... 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 metre ; graced indeed since ...
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... Greek form is Sina . That shepherd . So Moses is metaphorically called in Isaiah lxiii . 11. In Exod . iii . 1 , he ' kept the flock of Jethro , his father - in - law . ' See Hesiod's Theog . 1. 21 , etc. Inspire . What poetry did Moses ...
... Greek form is Sina . That shepherd . So Moses is metaphorically called in Isaiah lxiii . 11. In Exod . iii . 1 , he ' kept the flock of Jethro , his father - in - law . ' See Hesiod's Theog . 1. 21 , etc. Inspire . What poetry did Moses ...
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... Greek form of the Hebrew name Zion ) , one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built . See Smith's Dictionary of the Bible , Vol . IV . pp . 3632-4 , under the word ' Zion . ' -- 11. Siloa's brook . ( Siloa seems to be here accented on ...
... Greek form of the Hebrew name Zion ) , one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built . See Smith's Dictionary of the Bible , Vol . IV . pp . 3632-4 , under the word ' Zion . ' -- 11. Siloa's brook . ( Siloa seems to be here accented on ...
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... Greek poets , which Milton intends to surpass in boldness of conception . " R. C. Browne . " In Milton only , first and last , is the power of the sublime revealed . In Milton only does this great agency blaze and glow as a furnace kept ...
... Greek poets , which Milton intends to surpass in boldness of conception . " R. C. Browne . " In Milton only , first and last , is the power of the sublime revealed . In Milton only does this great agency blaze and glow as a furnace kept ...
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Page xxix - 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.
Page 42 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...