Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... given to the public of the immortal author It may seem 6 of Paradise Lost ' are numerous . ungracious to speak of my predecessors , if not with unqualified praise ; yet it is necessary . The foundation of all the Memoirs of the Poet is ...
... given to the public of the immortal author It may seem 6 of Paradise Lost ' are numerous . ungracious to speak of my predecessors , if not with unqualified praise ; yet it is necessary . The foundation of all the Memoirs of the Poet is ...
Page xxvi
... given reasons for the judgments I have ventured to pronounce ; and if the principles of poetry , which I have adopted , -not discovered , -are wrong , or my application of them not just , let it be shown by temperate criticism . I may ...
... given reasons for the judgments I have ventured to pronounce ; and if the principles of poetry , which I have adopted , -not discovered , -are wrong , or my application of them not just , let it be shown by temperate criticism . I may ...
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... given a very remarkable specimen of his ability to succeed in the Spen- serian stanza : he moves with great ease and address amidst the embarrassment of a frequent return of rhyme . " Several other poems of Milton , both English and ...
... given a very remarkable specimen of his ability to succeed in the Spen- serian stanza : he moves with great ease and address amidst the embarrassment of a frequent return of rhyme . " Several other poems of Milton , both English and ...
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... given To mount on fiery wheels to Heaven . Boötes ' waggon , slow with cold , Appall'd me not ; nor to behold The sword that vast Orion draws , Or e'en the Scorpion's horrid claws , & c . & c . The same elegant and classical commentator ...
... given To mount on fiery wheels to Heaven . Boötes ' waggon , slow with cold , Appall'd me not ; nor to behold The sword that vast Orion draws , Or e'en the Scorpion's horrid claws , & c . & c . The same elegant and classical commentator ...
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... given way to modern arts and improvements . Turrets and battlements were conspicuous marks of the numerous new buildings of King Henry VIII . , and of some rather more ancient , many of which yet remained in their original state un ...
... given way to modern arts and improvements . Turrets and battlements were conspicuous marks of the numerous new buildings of King Henry VIII . , and of some rather more ancient , many of which yet remained in their original state un ...
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Page 210 - Daughters, but by 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 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 208 - Thee I revisit safe, 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 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Page 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.