Paradise Lost: A PoemBaudry's European Library, 1833 - 351 pages |
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Page xvi
... delighted with Homer ; a bard so congenial with himself , that , from frequent read- ing , he could repeat the greatest part of his works . Of the English poets he preferred Spencer , Shakspeare , and Cowley ; and to shew that the ...
... delighted with Homer ; a bard so congenial with himself , that , from frequent read- ing , he could repeat the greatest part of his works . Of the English poets he preferred Spencer , Shakspeare , and Cowley ; and to shew that the ...
Page xviii
... delight which they afford is rather by the imitation of ancient writers , by the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention or vigour of sentiment . This remark we conceive to be dictated by ...
... delight which they afford is rather by the imitation of ancient writers , by the purity of the diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention or vigour of sentiment . This remark we conceive to be dictated by ...
Page xx
... delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . : « The pensive man walks unseen ... delight in music ; but he seems to think that cheerful notes would have obtained from Pluto a complete dismission of ...
... delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . : « The pensive man walks unseen ... delight in music ; but he seems to think that cheerful notes would have obtained from Pluto a complete dismission of ...
Page xxii
... delightful and enchant- ing effect . The Sonnets of Milton deserve not any particular com- ments ; for of the best it can only be said , that they are not bad ; and perhaps only the eighth , and twenty - first are truly entitled to this ...
... delightful and enchant- ing effect . The Sonnets of Milton deserve not any particular com- ments ; for of the best it can only be said , that they are not bad ; and perhaps only the eighth , and twenty - first are truly entitled to this ...
Page xxvi
... delight- ed to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings ; to trace the ... delights by its fertility . « Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagi- nation . But his images and ...
... delight- ed to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings ; to trace the ... delights by its fertility . « Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagi- nation . But his images and ...
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Page 13 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 66 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 5 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Page 4 - 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, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 11 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 109 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 127 - But know that, in the soul, Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief: among these, Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests.
Page 110 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 7 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost — the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me.
Page 92 - 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 I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...