On Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' both as a drama and an illustration of the poet's life ...A. W. Schade (L. Schade), 1871 - 32 sivua |
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Sivu 21 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Sivu 22 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Sivu 14 - From under ashes into sudden flame, And as an evening Dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order ranged Of tame villatic fowl, but as an Eagle His cloudless thunder bolted on their heads.
Sivu 6 - This is mentioned to vindicate tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day with other common interludes...
Sivu 5 - Tragedy, as it was antiently compos'd, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirr'd up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Sivu 11 - The criticism was just. It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue, when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two incongruous styles, when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve, that he rises even. above himself.
Sivu 14 - Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third...
Sivu 19 - Milton has borrowed more than any other writer, and exhausted every source of imitation, sacred or profane; yet he is perfectly distinct from every other writer. He is a writer of centos, and yet in originality scarcely inferior to Homer. The power of his mind is stamped on every line. The fervour of his imagination melts down and renders malleable, as in a furnace, the most contradictory materials.
Sivu 14 - Whatever be the faults of his diction, he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety : he was master of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melodious words with such diligence, that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be learned. After his diction something must be said of his versification. The measure, he says, is the English heroic verse without rhyme.
Sivu 11 - This is undoubtedly a just and regular catastrophe, and the poem, therefore, has a beginning and an end which Aristotle himself could not have disapproved ; but it must be allowed to want a middle, since nothing passes between the first act and the last, that either hastens or delays the death of Samson. The whole drama, if its superfluities were cut off, would scarcely fill a single act ; yet this is the tragedy which ignorance has admired, and bigotry applauded.