Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... Angel of the Bible is the hero of Paradise Lost ; and one of the most striking things about this poem is , that in it we see the grand imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And ...
... Angel of the Bible is the hero of Paradise Lost ; and one of the most striking things about this poem is , that in it we see the grand imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And ...
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... angel as he may be supposed to have existed at that epoch of the creation when he had hardly decided his own function ; as yet warring with the Almighty , or , in pursuit of a gigantic scheme of revenge , travelling from star to star ...
... angel as he may be supposed to have existed at that epoch of the creation when he had hardly decided his own function ; as yet warring with the Almighty , or , in pursuit of a gigantic scheme of revenge , travelling from star to star ...
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... angels , and , at the same time , to make one event naturally follow another . It was comparatively easy for Milton to sustain his conception of these superhuman beings as mere objects or phenomena- to represent them flying singly ...
... angels , and , at the same time , to make one event naturally follow another . It was comparatively easy for Milton to sustain his conception of these superhuman beings as mere objects or phenomena- to represent them flying singly ...
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... angels to deliberate , this must be done in an audience - hall , and the human mind refuses to go beyond certain limits in its conception of what an audience - hall is . Again , the gate of Hell is described , although the Hell of ...
... angels to deliberate , this must be done in an audience - hall , and the human mind refuses to go beyond certain limits in its conception of what an audience - hall is . Again , the gate of Hell is described , although the Hell of ...
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... Angels as physical agents does not fall beneath his conception of them as mere objects . In his description , for instance , in the sixth book , of the Angels tearing up mountains by the roots , and flinging them upon each other , we ...
... Angels as physical agents does not fall beneath his conception of them as mere objects . In his description , for instance , in the sixth book , of the Angels tearing up mountains by the roots , and flinging them upon each other , we ...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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