Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 19
... standing the severest test of the crucible . Milton attended in the Comus to the distinction which he afterwards neglected in the Samson . He made his Masque what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , and dramatic only in semblance ...
... standing the severest test of the crucible . Milton attended in the Comus to the distinction which he afterwards neglected in the Samson . He made his Masque what it ought to be , essentially lyrical , and dramatic only in semblance ...
Page 20
... stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , ' Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to ...
... stands forth in celestial freedom and beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , ' Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to ...
Page 21
... stand simply for what they are . Those of Milton have a signification which is often discernible only to the initiated . Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange ...
... stand simply for what they are . Those of Milton have a signification which is often discernible only to the initiated . Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest . However strange ...
Page 22
... stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St ...
... stands like Teneriffe or Atlas : his stature reaches the sky . Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St ...
Page 26
... stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be ...
... stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in cathedrals have not always been able to demolish those which were enshrined in their minds . It would not be ...
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