The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volum 1John Macrone, 1835 |
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Pàgina xxii
... common intellects have the au- thority of a man of Johnson's literary reputation for this sort of ordinary matter - of - fact taste , they nurse themselves in it with a triumphant scorn of their opponents . But what can rich and ac ...
... common intellects have the au- thority of a man of Johnson's literary reputation for this sort of ordinary matter - of - fact taste , they nurse themselves in it with a triumphant scorn of their opponents . But what can rich and ac ...
Pàgina xxv
... hope that I have not been guilty of indulging in common- place , clothed in a pompous profusion of empty words . If I have been severe on Johnson , it is not a liberty so great as he has himself taken PREFACE . XXV .
... hope that I have not been guilty of indulging in common- place , clothed in a pompous profusion of empty words . If I have been severe on Johnson , it is not a liberty so great as he has himself taken PREFACE . XXV .
Pàgina 27
... common benefits , and such As nature bids , but of thy larger gifts , My Father ! who , when I had open'd once The stores of Roman rhetoric , and learn'd The full - toned language of the eloquent Greeks , Whose lofty music graced the ...
... common benefits , and such As nature bids , but of thy larger gifts , My Father ! who , when I had open'd once The stores of Roman rhetoric , and learn'd The full - toned language of the eloquent Greeks , Whose lofty music graced the ...
Pàgina 38
... common poet ; but not comparatively for Milton : I cannot allow them that high invention which belongs to the bard of Paradise Lost . ' Warton criticises John- son's comment with a just severity : - " Never , " says he , " were fine ...
... common poet ; but not comparatively for Milton : I cannot allow them that high invention which belongs to the bard of Paradise Lost . ' Warton criticises John- son's comment with a just severity : - " Never , " says he , " were fine ...
Pàgina 40
... common ears : but then the want of dignity , of the " long - resounding pace " in the versifi- cation , lessens the magic . The whole is written lightly , and upon the surface : the poet skims away , just touches with his wings , and ...
... common ears : but then the want of dignity , of the " long - resounding pace " in the versifi- cation , lessens the magic . The whole is written lightly , and upon the surface : the poet skims away , just touches with his wings , and ...
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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 speaks Spenser spirit style sublime Tasso taste thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth verse virtue vulgar Warton wisdom words writing