The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English and Versification, Volum 3Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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Pàgina 183
... blank page at the end of which some old possessor of the volume has left written , in minute hand- writing , the following piece of verse . We print it in our present spelling : — " AN EPITAPH . He whom Heaven did call away Out of this ...
... blank page at the end of which some old possessor of the volume has left written , in minute hand- writing , the following piece of verse . We print it in our present spelling : — " AN EPITAPH . He whom Heaven did call away Out of this ...
Pàgina 207
... verse adopted by Dr. Latham in his work on the English Language . Let a stand for an accented syllable , and x for ... blank verse consists of five Iambi , we can say that its formula is 5 xa . With the help of such additional symbols as ...
... verse adopted by Dr. Latham in his work on the English Language . Let a stand for an accented syllable , and x for ... blank verse consists of five Iambi , we can say that its formula is 5 xa . With the help of such additional symbols as ...
Pàgina 208
... blank verse , or in the older form of heroic rhyming couplets , we have made this 5 xa metre suit for the narrative and didactic purposes to which the Greeks and Latins appropriated the Dactylic Hexameter or 6 axx ; we have made it suit ...
... blank verse , or in the older form of heroic rhyming couplets , we have made this 5 xa metre suit for the narrative and didactic purposes to which the Greeks and Latins appropriated the Dactylic Hexameter or 6 axx ; we have made it suit ...
Pàgina 209
... blank verse of 5 xa , varied by 5 xa + ( the first time of Milton's use of Blank Verse ) ; with one passage , however ( lines 495-512 ) , in ordinary rhyming Heroics or the 5 xa couplet . The interspersed lyrical pieces of two sorts ...
... blank verse of 5 xa , varied by 5 xa + ( the first time of Milton's use of Blank Verse ) ; with one passage , however ( lines 495-512 ) , in ordinary rhyming Heroics or the 5 xa couplet . The interspersed lyrical pieces of two sorts ...
Pàgina 210
... Verse in the Prose - Pamphlets . - These are all in the ordinary Blank Verse of 5 xa . Horace , Ode I. V. , Translated . - An unrhymed piece of sixteen lines , in alternate pairs of 5 xa ( or 5 xa + ) and 3 xa . Psalms LXXX . - LXXXVIII ...
... Verse in the Prose - Pamphlets . - These are all in the ordinary Blank Verse of 5 xa . Horace , Ode I. V. , Translated . - An unrhymed piece of sixteen lines , in alternate pairs of 5 xa ( or 5 xa + ) and 3 xa . Psalms LXXX . - LXXXVIII ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 275 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Pàgina 91 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Pàgina 6 - 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...
Pàgina 179 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Pàgina 144 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Pàgina 230 - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Pàgina 281 - He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory: They knew not of his story...
Pàgina 227 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Pàgina 95 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Pàgina 80 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.