The Epic of Paradise Lost: Twelve EssaysG. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 - 375 sivua |
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A. B. Grosart Adam and Eve Adam in Ballingschap Adam's fall Adamus Exsul allegory appear archangel artistic attempt Avitus Bartas beauty Belial Book Cadmon cast characterisation characters chorus of angels Christ Christian Doctrine Christian epic classic concrete contest created death declares defect devices dignity divine Du Bartas earth edition epic background epic method episode essay Eve's fall of Lucifer fallen angels forces fourth draft fruit garden of Eden God's Grotius heaven heavenly hell hero human imagination innocence interest John Milton L'Adamo literary art London loss Lucifer's Luciferians lyric man's fall marvels mercy messenger Michael Migné mind motive mystery nature Paradise Lost philosophical play plot poem poet poetical portrayal present problem Prudentius Ptolemaic system Raphael reason resistance reveals Satan scene serpent Shakespeare song spirit spiritual conceptions Stadtholder Star story temptation theme tion ton's tragedy Treatise on Christian triumph universal victory Vondel woman
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Sivu 42 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Sivu 251 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Sivu 345 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Sivu 342 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Sivu 347 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity! 0 dread and silent Mount! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Sivu 43 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Sivu 330 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Sivu 347 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Sivu 101 - Be strong, live happy, and love ! But, first of all, Him, whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command : take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit...
Sivu 114 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...