The Spectator, Volume 4Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton, 1853 |
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... Milton introduces into his poem always dis- cover such sentiments and behaviour as are in a pe- culiar manner conformable to their respective char- acters . Every circumstance in their speeches and action , is with great justice and ...
... Milton introduces into his poem always dis- cover such sentiments and behaviour as are in a pe- culiar manner conformable to their respective char- acters . Every circumstance in their speeches and action , is with great justice and ...
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... Milton has represented this violent impetuous spirit , who is hur- ried on by such precipitate passions , as the first that rises in the assembly to give his opinion upon their present posture of affairs . Accordingly he declares ...
... Milton has represented this violent impetuous spirit , who is hur- ried on by such precipitate passions , as the first that rises in the assembly to give his opinion upon their present posture of affairs . Accordingly he declares ...
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... might be first suggested to Milton , by a con trast of the same kind between Argentes and Aletes , in the 2d canto of Tasso's Gierusaleme Liberato . THYER . nity that fell , and is in the first book No. 309. ] 39 THE SPECTATOR .
... might be first suggested to Milton , by a con trast of the same kind between Argentes and Aletes , in the 2d canto of Tasso's Gierusaleme Liberato . THYER . nity that fell , and is in the first book No. 309. ] 39 THE SPECTATOR .
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... Milton does a far greater honour to mankind in gen- eral , as he gives us a glimpse of them even before they are in ... Milton's Paradise Lost , vol . i . p . 130 . Their music is employed in celebrating their own criminal exploits No ...
... Milton does a far greater honour to mankind in gen- eral , as he gives us a glimpse of them even before they are in ... Milton's Paradise Lost , vol . i . p . 130 . Their music is employed in celebrating their own criminal exploits No ...
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... the chaos from the utmost verge of the creation , with the dis- t See Newton's ed . of Milton's Paradise Lost , vol . i . p . 142 , & c . tant discovery of the earth that hung close by the 44 [ No. 309 . THE SPECTATOR .
... the chaos from the utmost verge of the creation , with the dis- t See Newton's ed . of Milton's Paradise Lost , vol . i . p . 142 , & c . tant discovery of the earth that hung close by the 44 [ No. 309 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Page 324 - And strait conjunction with this sex : for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd By a far worse ; or, if she love, withheld By parents ; or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame ; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
Page 280 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 176 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 312 - Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 415 - The Saviour comes ! by ancient bards foretold ! Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold ! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day...
Page 323 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 214 - They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turn'd by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains to assault Heaven's height, and with the centre mix the pole. Silence, ye troubled waves, and thou deep peace, Said then th...
Page 40 - To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not; that He no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. Space may produce new worlds, whereof so rife...
Page 250 - Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally: and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 375 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They, looking back, all the...