A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1926 - 304 pages |
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... interest about him . It is only thus that his significance in English literature can be understood or his greatness properly estimated . Oddly enough no companion to Milton studies , com- parable in scope to the available Shakespeare ...
... interest about him . It is only thus that his significance in English literature can be understood or his greatness properly estimated . Oddly enough no companion to Milton studies , com- parable in scope to the available Shakespeare ...
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... Interest in him has been wider in the past , but it was never more vital than it is to - day . The glory of his utterance is as highly valued as ever , the power of his poetic and phil- osophic thought , as contrasted with the dogmatic ...
... Interest in him has been wider in the past , but it was never more vital than it is to - day . The glory of his utterance is as highly valued as ever , the power of his poetic and phil- osophic thought , as contrasted with the dogmatic ...
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... century possessed no such curiosity in literary biography as we have to - day , the modern interest in such matters was I | Bitter beginning to develop , and before the generation of those I PREFACE MATERIALS FOR MILTON'S BIOGRAPHY.
... century possessed no such curiosity in literary biography as we have to - day , the modern interest in such matters was I | Bitter beginning to develop , and before the generation of those I PREFACE MATERIALS FOR MILTON'S BIOGRAPHY.
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... interest in his own personality into the field of creative art , he made his poetry as well as his prose an intimate though dignified record of his own experience . We have , then , the material for a life of Milton , as abundant in its ...
... interest in his own personality into the field of creative art , he made his poetry as well as his prose an intimate though dignified record of his own experience . We have , then , the material for a life of Milton , as abundant in its ...
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... interest for aim in what he taught . He was of a moderate stature , and well proportioned , of a ruddy complexion , light brown hair , and handsome features ; save that his eyes were none of the quickest . But his blindness , which ...
... interest for aim in what he taught . He was of a moderate stature , and well proportioned , of a ruddy complexion , light brown hair , and handsome features ; save that his eyes were none of the quickest . But his blindness , which ...
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Page 40 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 238 - 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...
Page 147 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 277 - 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...
Page 281 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus commenting that book is sufficient to confirm.
Page 242 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees...
Page 39 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 240 - Warred on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 259 - The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the...
Page 69 - Colasterion ; a Reply to A nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...