| William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 368 страници
...thoughts: but such is the power of his poetry, that his call is obeyed without resistance, the reader finds himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind,...criticism sinks in admiration. Milton's style was modified by his subject; what is shown with greater extent in Paradise Lost may be found in Comus.... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 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...reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, Milton, Lives of the English... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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.' — Johnson (Life of Milton). ' Milton's Latin style is, I think, better and easier than his English.... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 страници
...compelling, this bondage may be welcome. "Such is the power of his poetry," Johnson says of Milton, "that his call is obeyed without resistance, the reader...himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind" (Lives 1 : 190). But captivity always threatens to be dangerously coercive, as Johnson states plainly... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 страници
...by the beauty, nor a wed by the dignity of his thoughts; but such is the power of his poetry, chat his call is obeyed without resistance, the reader...mind, and criticism sinks in admiration. Milton's stile was not modified by his subject: what is shown with greater extent in Paradise Lost, may be found... | |
| Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 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. (1:190) Milton's "diction," like his use of blank verse, renders him "foreign." "[T]he disposition... | |
| John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 страници
...prisoners, our only option is to submit: "Such is the power of his poetry," Johnson writes of Milton, "that his call is obeyed without resistance, the reader...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration" (190). Johnson sustains but reverses this imagery when he describes the author of Paradise Lost as... | |
| Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 225 страници
...190. (The 'Babylonish Dialect' alludes to Samuel Butler, Hudibras, ii 93.) See further on that page: 'Such is the power of his poetry that his call is...a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration'. 9. Such writing by no means always imitates classical models. Keats identified two specimens of 'very... | |
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