Milton, with an Introduction and NotesMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 139 pages |
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Page xii
... Italian has prevented the fact of Milton's paramount affection for that young half- Italian from being generally known , and has led to the idea that the unique friend of Milton's youth was Edward King of Christ's . The death of that ...
... Italian has prevented the fact of Milton's paramount affection for that young half- Italian from being generally known , and has led to the idea that the unique friend of Milton's youth was Edward King of Christ's . The death of that ...
Page xv
... Italians . 6 Nor was Spenser a real Colin Clout , with Sidney , and Raleigh , and Shakespeare , and all the other poets , or other eminent Englishmen of the day , surrounding him as actual shepherds , called Astrophel , and Cuddie , and ...
... Italians . 6 Nor was Spenser a real Colin Clout , with Sidney , and Raleigh , and Shakespeare , and all the other poets , or other eminent Englishmen of the day , surrounding him as actual shepherds , called Astrophel , and Cuddie , and ...
Page xxi
... Italian , Giovanni Battista Andreini ; and in 1730 a Scotchman , William Lauder , published a volume to prove that Milton had ransacked modern and medieval literature for ideas and language . Lauder's charges were quickly exposed , and ...
... Italian , Giovanni Battista Andreini ; and in 1730 a Scotchman , William Lauder , published a volume to prove that Milton had ransacked modern and medieval literature for ideas and language . Lauder's charges were quickly exposed , and ...
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... Italian writers may be dis- covered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church 30 by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its exter- mination . He is ...
... Italian writers may be dis- covered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church 30 by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its exter- mination . He is ...
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... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , stayed two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , stayed two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
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Page 120 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 41 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral, easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting: whatever images it can supply, are long ago exhausted; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Page 28 - Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.
Page 52 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Page xviii - ... the Church, to whose service by the intentions of my parents and friends I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions, till coming to some maturity of years and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the Church, that he who would take Orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which unless he took with a conscience that would retch he must either straight perjure, or split his faith, I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking bought,...
Page 116 - And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the highth of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page xxiv - Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.
Page xx - ... by labour and intense study, which," says he, "I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,'' he might "leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 22 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which, being written by whatever hand came next, might possibly want correction, as to the orthography and pointing...
Page 35 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.