A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1926 - 304 pages |
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... interpretation of the texts . Discus- sion of purely critical problems is also omitted , though the general course of Miltonic opinion is sketched in the final chapter . The first process in the study of Milton should be interpretation ...
... interpretation of the texts . Discus- sion of purely critical problems is also omitted , though the general course of Miltonic opinion is sketched in the final chapter . The first process in the study of Milton should be interpretation ...
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... interpretation . Everyone agrees that Milton was no ordinary person ; but the judgments that have been passed on his personality and character have varied with the political sympathies , the moral attitude , and the personal temperament ...
... interpretation . Everyone agrees that Milton was no ordinary person ; but the judgments that have been passed on his personality and character have varied with the political sympathies , the moral attitude , and the personal temperament ...
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... interpreted them , and who shall determine the exact degree to which , in any particular instance , he deceived himself ? It has been argued1 that his remark in Areopagitica about visiting Galileo in Italy must be a fabrication , since ...
... interpreted them , and who shall determine the exact degree to which , in any particular instance , he deceived himself ? It has been argued1 that his remark in Areopagitica about visiting Galileo in Italy must be a fabrication , since ...
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... interpreting and moulding great events and being profoundly influenced by them in turn , the best way , also , to arrive at a comprehension of his wide ranging intellectual activity , to follow his developing thought and ideals , to ...
... interpreting and moulding great events and being profoundly influenced by them in turn , the best way , also , to arrive at a comprehension of his wide ranging intellectual activity , to follow his developing thought and ideals , to ...
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... interpret particular issues at hand in accordance with large and enduring principles ) his writings constitute a vital and permanent contribution to literature and thought . Many passages have in them all the intensity of Milton's ...
... interpret particular issues at hand in accordance with large and enduring principles ) his writings constitute a vital and permanent contribution to literature and thought . Many passages have in them all the intensity of Milton's ...
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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...