Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets: Milton. ButlerJ. Nichols, 1779 - English poetry |
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... means fuch of them as had the gift , being enabled to Support themfelves ( without tithes ) by the latter , may , by the help of the former , become worthy preachers . One of his objections to academical education , as it was then ...
... means fuch of them as had the gift , being enabled to Support themfelves ( without tithes ) by the latter , may , by the help of the former , become worthy preachers . One of his objections to academical education , as it was then ...
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... means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the em- bellishments of life , formed the fame plan of education in his imaginary Col- lege . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and of the sciences which that ...
... means than Milton of knowing what was wanting to the em- bellishments of life , formed the fame plan of education in his imaginary Col- lege . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and of the sciences which that ...
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... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmeft friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not fell literature to all comers at an open fhop ; he was a cham- a chamber - milliner , and measured ...
... mean by a mean employment . This , however , his warmeft friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not fell literature to all comers at an open fhop ; he was a cham- a chamber - milliner , and measured ...
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... means of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great danger ; but Milton's pride ope- rated against his malignity , and both he and his friends were more willing that Du Moulin fhould efcape than that he fhould be convicted of ...
... means of knowing the true author . Du Moulin was now in great danger ; but Milton's pride ope- rated against his malignity , and both he and his friends were more willing that Du Moulin fhould efcape than that he fhould be convicted of ...
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... mean while , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by fome angel the manner of the . Fall Here the Chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accufe one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ...
... mean while , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by fome angel the manner of the . Fall Here the Chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accufe one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ...
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Page 146 - Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.
Page 203 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Page 120 - 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.
Page 199 - ... by the artifice of rhyme. The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers, of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank 'verse, said an ingenious critick, seems to be verse only to the eye.
Page 17 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 203 - ... he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Page 136 - Nothing can less display knowledge, or less exercise invention, than to tell how a shepherd has lost his companion, and must now feed his flocks alone, without any judge of his skill in piping; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas, and how neither god can tell. He who thus grieves will excite no sympathy; he who thus praises will confer no honour.
Page 123 - He hated monarchs in the state, and prelates in the church; for he hated all whom he was required to obey. It is to be suspected, that his predominant desire was to destroy, rather than establish, and that he felt not so much the love of liberty, as repugnance to authority.
Page 153 - Milton must be confessed to have equalled every other poet. He has involved in his account of the Fall of Man the events...
Page 152 - Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish.