Criticisms on Paradise LostGinn, 1892 - 200 страници |
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Страница 81 - putteth forth her green figs, and the vines, with' the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away ! ' Come, my beloved ! let us go forth into the field, let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine
Страница 81 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away ! for, lo ! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The fig-tree
Страница 128 - On his pale horse. Which alludes to that passage in Scripture so wonderfully poetical and terrifying to the imagination,' And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him : and power was
Страница 45 - Here we may reign secure; and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Amidst those impieties which this enraged spirit utters in other places of the poem, the author has taken care to
Страница 153 - 5 The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. The number of books in Paradise Lost is equal to those of the ^Eneid. Our author in his first edition had divided
Страница 153 - 4 They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. These two verses, though they have their beauty, fall very much below the foregoing passage, and renew in the mind of the reader that anguish which was pretty
Страница 124 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour, Forth-reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat. Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
Страница 72 - But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to
Страница 102 - Far into Chaos and the World unborn: For Chaos heard his voice. Him all his train Followed in bright procession, to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might. Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe