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... praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such ...
... praise of the English writer who " seems to have rivalled and ex- celled all other Epic poets . " Paradise Lost , according to this treatise , is " wonderfully described , painted with such bold and noble strokes , and delivered in such ...
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... praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the shorter pieces were seldom mentioned , and at no time do they seem to have exerted an influence at all com- parable to that of the epic . Evidence of every kind and from a great variety ...
... praise was being lavished upon Paradise Lost , the shorter pieces were seldom mentioned , and at no time do they seem to have exerted an influence at all com- parable to that of the epic . Evidence of every kind and from a great variety ...
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... praise for the sonnets . 1 Letter to Matthew Smith , c . 1750 , in Prior's Burke ( 5th ed . , 1854 ) , 35 . 2 Letter to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 . 3 Lectures on Rhetoric ( 1783 ) , ii . 375 . Observations on English Metre ( w ...
... praise for the sonnets . 1 Letter to Matthew Smith , c . 1750 , in Prior's Burke ( 5th ed . , 1854 ) , 35 . 2 Letter to William Unwin , Jan. 17 , 1782 . 3 Lectures on Rhetoric ( 1783 ) , ii . 375 . Observations on English Metre ( w ...
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... Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for Lycidas " the same Veneration , and Partiality , which is paid to the most accomplish'd Works of Antiquity , " and in 1756 some who held it " one ...
... Praise of which no Words can be too many " ; as early as 1729 there were some who felt for Lycidas " the same Veneration , and Partiality , which is paid to the most accomplish'd Works of Antiquity , " and in 1756 some who held it " one ...
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... praise , " one of the greatest . . . Poems . . . this Age . . . has produced , " is repeated , and Wood- ford adds that if the work had been rimed " it had been so absolute a piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or ...
... praise , " one of the greatest . . . Poems . . . this Age . . . has produced , " is repeated , and Wood- ford adds that if the work had been rimed " it had been so absolute a piece , that in spight of whatever the World Heathen , or ...
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Page 187 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove; Huge trunks! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved; Nor uniformed with Phantasy, and looks That threaten the profane...
Page 180 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 86 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.
Page 577 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 194 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a wondrous depth, Far sinking into splendor — without end ! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted ; here, serene pavilions bright, In avenues disposed ; there, towers begirt With...
Page 579 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the aery knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns.
Page 578 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 595 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 232 - His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Page 584 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...