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... classical anti- quity and absorbing the classical genius so thoroughly that the ancients were to him what they afterwards became to Landor , what they have never become to any other English poet in the same degree , even as the very ...
... classical anti- quity and absorbing the classical genius so thoroughly that the ancients were to him what they afterwards became to Landor , what they have never become to any other English poet in the same degree , even as the very ...
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... classical poem in English literature ; or again , why some great writers ( among them Coleridge and Wordsworth ) have pronounced Paradise Re- gained to be in point of artistic execution the most consum- mate of Milton's works , a ...
... classical poem in English literature ; or again , why some great writers ( among them Coleridge and Wordsworth ) have pronounced Paradise Re- gained to be in point of artistic execution the most consum- mate of Milton's works , a ...
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... classical Greek κôμos of Comus , the magician . creation of Milton . signifies no more than ' revel ' or ' revelling - band . ' The personification Comus , i . e . pleasure raised to the dignity of a deity , is a post - classical ...
... classical Greek κôμos of Comus , the magician . creation of Milton . signifies no more than ' revel ' or ' revelling - band . ' The personification Comus , i . e . pleasure raised to the dignity of a deity , is a post - classical ...
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... classical attributes of his mother Circe . Like Vergil and Ovid before him he lays the Odyssey under large contribution . Here , however , Spenser had anti- cipated Milton ; cf. the account of the enchantress Acrasia in the Faerie ...
... classical attributes of his mother Circe . Like Vergil and Ovid before him he lays the Odyssey under large contribution . Here , however , Spenser had anti- cipated Milton ; cf. the account of the enchantress Acrasia in the Faerie ...
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... classical reader the old and happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome — these qualities that belong mainly to art , are held together and heightened by a perfect genuineness of emotion which is the outcome of sheer inspiration ...
... classical reader the old and happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome — these qualities that belong mainly to art , are held together and heightened by a perfect genuineness of emotion which is the outcome of sheer inspiration ...
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Page 128 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 142 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 164 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 172 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
Page 197 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 13 - Yet some there be that, by due steps, aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is...
Page 37 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 13 - Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, Confined and pestered in this pinfold here, Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being, Unmindful of the crown that Virtue gives, After this mortal change, to her true servants 10 Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
Page 105 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page xx - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.