Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... truth . It is easy to find novelty if we permit ourselves to turn aside into the paths of error . To be natural and just , yet not obvious , is , as Addison says , the grand secret . I have followed the steps of no preceding biographer ...
... truth . It is easy to find novelty if we permit ourselves to turn aside into the paths of error . To be natural and just , yet not obvious , is , as Addison says , the grand secret . I have followed the steps of no preceding biographer ...
Page xxix
... truth . From the dead of the night , while all was silent around me , I have worked till dawn ; and when the broad round beam of the golden sun had lifted itself clearly above the Alps , I laid down my pen , and pre- pared to enjoy in ...
... truth . From the dead of the night , while all was silent around me , I have worked till dawn ; and when the broad round beam of the golden sun had lifted itself clearly above the Alps , I laid down my pen , and pre- pared to enjoy in ...
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... truth , and purity of intellect and heart , break out at every word . To these strains who can deny poetical invention ? What definition of poetry can be given , by which this Mask can be excluded from a very high place ? Is it not ...
... truth , and purity of intellect and heart , break out at every word . To these strains who can deny poetical invention ? What definition of poetry can be given , by which this Mask can be excluded from a very high place ? Is it not ...
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... truths , but imagi- native truths : even single epithets convey these , as is shown by every part of Comus , ' while pic- turesque words point out the leading features of every rural object . No such words ever appear in Dryden or Pope ...
... truths , but imagi- native truths : even single epithets convey these , as is shown by every part of Comus , ' while pic- turesque words point out the leading features of every rural object . No such words ever appear in Dryden or Pope ...
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... truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the fre- quent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation ; whether ...
... truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the fre- quent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation ; whether ...
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Addison admiration ancient Andrew Marvell angels appear bard beautiful blind character Comus Countess of Derby critic Dante daughter delight divine Dryden elegy English enthusiasm epic exalted fable fancy father fiction Forest-hill genius glory grand grandeur Gray hath heart Heaven holy Homer honour human Il Penseroso imagery images imagination intellectual invention J. M. W. TURNER John Milton Johnson Joseph Warton King L'Allegro labour language Latin learning less liberty lived lofty Lycidas majesty ment mind moral Muse native nature never noble observation opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages passions perhaps person Petrarch picturesque poem poet poet's poetical poetry political Powell praise Puritan racter reader rich Samson Agonistes says seems sentiment Shakspeare solemn Sonnets Spenser spirit style sublime Tasso taste thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth verse virtue vulgar Warton wisdom words writing
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Page 210 - Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Page 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.