The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volums 7-8J. Crissy, 1838 |
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Pàgina 11
... Paradise Lost is looked upon by the best judges as the greatest production , or at least , the noblest work of genius , in our lan- guage , and therefore deserves to be set before an English reader in its full beauty . For this rea- son ...
... Paradise Lost is looked upon by the best judges as the greatest production , or at least , the noblest work of genius , in our lan- guage , and therefore deserves to be set before an English reader in its full beauty . For this rea- son ...
Pàgina 12
... Paradise , Adam's bower , & c . In the next are the machines , which comprehend the speeches and behaviour of the good and bad angels . In the last is the conduct of Adam and Eve , who are the principal actors in the poem . In the ...
... Paradise , Adam's bower , & c . In the next are the machines , which comprehend the speeches and behaviour of the good and bad angels . In the last is the conduct of Adam and Eve , who are the principal actors in the poem . In the ...
Pàgina 13
... Paradise would have been faulty , had not the poet been very particular in it ; not only as it is the scene of the principal action , but as it is re- quisite to give us an idea of that happiness from which our first parents fell . The ...
... Paradise would have been faulty , had not the poet been very particular in it ; not only as it is the scene of the principal action , but as it is re- quisite to give us an idea of that happiness from which our first parents fell . The ...
Pàgina 14
... Paradise ; his sitting in the shape of a cormorant upon the tree of life , which stood in the centre of it ; and overtopped all the other trees of the garden ; his alighting among the herd of animals , which are so beauti- fully ...
... Paradise ; his sitting in the shape of a cormorant upon the tree of life , which stood in the centre of it ; and overtopped all the other trees of the garden ; his alighting among the herd of animals , which are so beauti- fully ...
Pàgina 15
... Paradise . His disdainful behaviour on this occasion is so re- markable a beauty , that the most ordinary reader can not but take notice of it . Gabriel's discover- ing his approach at a distance , is drawn with great strength and ...
... Paradise . His disdainful behaviour on this occasion is so re- markable a beauty , that the most ordinary reader can not but take notice of it . Gabriel's discover- ing his approach at a distance , is drawn with great strength and ...
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