An Essay Upon Milton's Imitations of the Ancients, in His Paradise Lost: With Some Observations on the Paradise Regain'dJ. Roberts, 1741 - 62 страници |
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... perhaps , had firft the Rule of high Olympus , thence by Saturn driven And Ops , e'er yet Dictaan Jove was born . THE Shape and Figure of Sin is also ta- ken from that of Scylla ; and I think the Probability is rather increased by the ...
... perhaps , had firft the Rule of high Olympus , thence by Saturn driven And Ops , e'er yet Dictaan Jove was born . THE Shape and Figure of Sin is also ta- ken from that of Scylla ; and I think the Probability is rather increased by the ...
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... perhaps , the finest one he has ta- ken from HOMER , in the whole ÆNEID , ei- ther for the Beauty of the Verses , or the Application ; yet ' tis not equal to MILTON'S . Hunc circum innumera gentes , populique volabant . Ac veluti in ...
... perhaps , the finest one he has ta- ken from HOMER , in the whole ÆNEID , ei- ther for the Beauty of the Verses , or the Application ; yet ' tis not equal to MILTON'S . Hunc circum innumera gentes , populique volabant . Ac veluti in ...
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... perhaps not three Inches long , to be as large as a high Mountain , or one of the Cyclades Islands . HESIOD , in his Theogony , describes Ju- piter scattering his Lightning , and Briari- us , & c . at the fame Time throwing Rocks and ...
... perhaps not three Inches long , to be as large as a high Mountain , or one of the Cyclades Islands . HESIOD , in his Theogony , describes Ju- piter scattering his Lightning , and Briari- us , & c . at the fame Time throwing Rocks and ...
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... perhaps to move HIS LAUGHTER at their quaint Opinions wide . Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calliginofa notte premit Deus ; Ridetque , fi mortalis ultra fas Trepidat . Ode 29. Lib 3 . Tala Tale tuum carmen nobis , divine poeta , Quale ...
... perhaps to move HIS LAUGHTER at their quaint Opinions wide . Prudens futuri temporis exitum Calliginofa notte premit Deus ; Ridetque , fi mortalis ultra fas Trepidat . Ode 29. Lib 3 . Tala Tale tuum carmen nobis , divine poeta , Quale ...
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... perhaps The Way feems difficult and steep , to scale With upright Wing against a higher Foe . Let fuch bethink them , if the sleepy Drench of that forgetful Lake benumb not still , That in our proper Motion we afcend Up Up to our native ...
... perhaps The Way feems difficult and steep , to scale With upright Wing against a higher Foe . Let fuch bethink them , if the sleepy Drench of that forgetful Lake benumb not still , That in our proper Motion we afcend Up Up to our native ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid againſt alfo alſo Angels atque atris Author Battle Beafts Beauty Beelzebub befides beſt Bitias Book Cafe choros Circumſtance Compariſon confiderable confifts Criticks Defart defigned deſcribes Deſcription deſtroys Dido Eneas Eneid exquifitely fage faid Faults fecond feems ferve feveral fhall fhould fince fineſt fing firft firſt flammis following Paffage fome Fowls fuch fuppofe fylvis Georgic gives Heaven Hengift himſelf Hiſtory HOMER HOMER and VIRGIL ILIAD increaſe Inftance Invention itſelf join'd laft laſt Line leaſt lefs Likeneſs lychni MILTON MILTON'S IMITATIONS moſt muft obferve muſt nefs Number Occafion OVID Paffage Paradife Loft Paſſage Place Pleaſure Poem Poet Quale Quam multa raiſe Reaſon Refemblance rence repreſents Rhime Satan Scripture Scylla Simile Speech Spirit ſtill Story Subject thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou Thought thro Trojan Uſe vaſtly Verſes VIRGIL Vlyffes Wings ἔθνεα ἔνθα καὶ τε ὡς
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Страница 53 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Страница 18 - The one seem'd woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb'd their noise, into her womb, And kennel there ; yet there still bark'd and howl'd Within unseen.
Страница 39 - His malice, and with rapine sweet bereaved His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought. That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge.
Страница 17 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Страница 21 - Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine Myriads, though bright — if he whom mutual league, United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise, Joined with me once...
Страница 27 - Whofe midnight revels by a foreft fide Or fountain fome belated peafant fees, Or dreams he fees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrefs, and nearer to the earth...
Страница 45 - O'er shields and helms and helmed heads he rode Of thrones and mighty seraphim prostrate, That wished the mountains now might be again Thrown on them, as a shelter from his ire.
Страница 25 - As bees In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubbed with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs...
Страница 6 - ... Pleasure we have from what is new, and the latter encroaches on that we receive from Imitations. . . . The Passages a Poet is to imitate ought to be selected with great Care, and should ever be the best Parts of the best Authors, and always ought to be improved in the Imitation: So that vastly less Invention and Judgment is required to make a good Original than a fine Imitation. Accordingly, we are told by the old Writer of the Life of VIRGIL, it was a Saying of that Poet's, That it would be...
Страница 5 - tis plain, this latter Kind of Imitations is not very conformable; upon which Account they ought to have, as well as a Likeness, a due Variation, that, at one and the same Time, they may gratify our several Dispositions, of being pleased with what is imitated, and with what is new. And from this it appears, that, in...