The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Memoir Etc, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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... WARTON : in his two editions of Milton's Minor Poems . - This well - known scholar , critic , and poet ( 1728-1790 ) ... Warton's circumstances , one of the best books of comment in the English language . Before his death he had prepared a ...
... WARTON : in his two editions of Milton's Minor Poems . - This well - known scholar , critic , and poet ( 1728-1790 ) ... Warton's circumstances , one of the best books of comment in the English language . Before his death he had prepared a ...
Page 145
... Warton and others , to older poets , whom Milton is supposed to have read in his boyhood . It is enough to say that , like every one else , he inherited a traditional phraseology , and began with it . A favourite book in English ...
... Warton and others , to older poets , whom Milton is supposed to have read in his boyhood . It is enough to say that , like every one else , he inherited a traditional phraseology , and began with it . A favourite book in English ...
Page 147
... Warton suggested " ice - ypearled , " on the ana- logy of ychained in the Ode on the Nativity ( 155 ) and star - ypointing in the lines on Shakespeare ; but , on the other analogy , afforded by such words as rosy - bosomed ( Comus , 986 ) ...
... Warton suggested " ice - ypearled , " on the ana- logy of ychained in the Ode on the Nativity ( 155 ) and star - ypointing in the lines on Shakespeare ; but , on the other analogy , afforded by such words as rosy - bosomed ( Comus , 986 ) ...
Page 148
... Warton , " an elegant edition of Bion and Moschus . " It is almost certainly correct , making the three person- ages of the stanza Justice ( the maiden ) , Mercy ( the young man ) , and Truth ( the matron ) ; which is the triad also in ...
... Warton , " an elegant edition of Bion and Moschus . " It is almost certainly correct , making the three person- ages of the stanza Justice ( the maiden ) , Mercy ( the young man ) , and Truth ( the matron ) ; which is the triad also in ...
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... Warton detects here a recollection of a stanza in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar ( April ) — " I saw Phoebus thrust out his golden head Upon her to gaze ; But , when he saw how broad her beams did 154 NOTES TO THE MINOR POEMS.
... Warton detects here a recollection of a stanza in Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar ( April ) — " I saw Phoebus thrust out his golden head Upon her to gaze ; But , when he saw how broad her beams did 154 NOTES TO THE MINOR POEMS.
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