Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed unless the mind of the reader co-operate with that of the writer. He does not paint a finished picture or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 26by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1826 - 126 pages
...of its fuel, but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance. (P. 310.) We often hear of the magical influence of poetry....acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make...acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...electrifies the mind through conductors, — that he sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline, — strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody ; — and, in speaking of the Allegro and the Penseroso, that "these poems differ from others, as ottar... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven."2 "We often hear of the magical influence of poetry....acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves other^ lo fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make...acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He ells us, from the counsellors of Charles the Second....Prince of Wales, and continued to declaim against the obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, aud leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make...acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects his hearer to make out the melody. We often hear of the magical influenee of poetry. The expression in general means nothing; but, applied to the writings of Milton,... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...picture, or play for a mere passive listener. He sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He e considered as proving that he was not, as Burnet...religion or of infidelity. He was no profound thinker. He obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...listener. It; sketches, and leaves others to fill up the outline. He strikes the key-note, and expects us hearer to make out the melody. ) We often hear of...general means nothing ; but, applied to the writings of MHton, it is most appropriate. His poetry acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious... | |
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