| John Milton - 1852 - 858 страници
...desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom. This, in all his prose, is discovered and censured; but such is the power of his poetry, that his call...himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind; eriticism sinks in admiration. Milton's style was not modified by his subject; what is shown, with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 страници
...for there judgment operates freely, neither softened by the beauty, nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts : but such is the power of his poetry, that...with greater extent in Paradise Lost may be found in Comut. One source of his peculiarity was his familiarity with the Tuscan poets ; the disposition of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 страници
...127 for there judgment operates freely, neither softened by the beauty nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry, that...reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 страници
...for there judgment operates freely, neither softened by the beauty, nor awed by the dignity, of his thoughts; but such is the power of his poetry, that...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. Of him, at last, may be said what Jonson says of Spensen that he wrote no language, but has formed... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 538 страници
...possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness is obliterated " ; or from saying that " such is the power of his poetry that his call is obeyed...and a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration ". With all his love for Pope, he found passages in Dryden " drawn from a profundity that Pope could... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 страници
...for there judgement operates freely, neither softened by the beauty, nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry, that...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. 20 Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shewn with greater extent in Paradise Lost,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 страници
...for there judgment operates freely, neither softened by the beauty, nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry, that...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. 30 Milton's style was not modified by his subject : what is shown with greater extent in " Paradise... | |
| William Minto - 1894 - 438 страници
...possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness ia obliterated," or from saying that " such is the power of his poetry that his call is obeyed...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration." With all his love for Pope he found passages in Dryden " drawn from a profundity that Pope could never... | |
| William Minto - 1894 - 434 страници
...possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness is obliterated," or from saying that " such is the power of his poetry that his call is obeyed...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration." With all his love for Pope he found passages in Dryden " drawn from a profundity that Pope could never... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 страници
...for there judgment operates freely, 30 neither softened by the beauty nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry that...Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what 5 is shown with greater extent in ' Paradise Lost ' may be found in ' Comus.' One source of his peculiarity... | |
| |