Paradise Lost: A PoemBaudry's European Library, 1833 - 351 pagina's |
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Pagina xv
... Adam . He was vigorous and active , and excelled in the exercise of the sword , and particulary the bachsword , the use of which he recommends in his « Treatise on Education . >> He was abstemious in his diet , and disliked all strong ...
... Adam . He was vigorous and active , and excelled in the exercise of the sword , and particulary the bachsword , the use of which he recommends in his « Treatise on Education . >> He was abstemious in his diet , and disliked all strong ...
Pagina xxv
... Adam and to Eve , and must par- take of that good and evil which extend to themselves . « To the completeness of the design nothing can be ob- jected ; it has distinctly and clearly what is requisite for a finished poem ; a beginning ...
... Adam and to Eve , and must par- take of that good and evil which extend to themselves . « To the completeness of the design nothing can be ob- jected ; it has distinctly and clearly what is requisite for a finished poem ; a beginning ...
Pagina xxxiv
... Adam is not Eneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examime it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be ...
... Adam is not Eneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examime it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be ...
Pagina xlii
... Adam and Eve , before the fall , ' are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet , of the most unbounded inven- tion , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their ...
... Adam and Eve , before the fall , ' are a different species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet , of the most unbounded inven- tion , and the most exquisite judgment , could have filled their ...
Pagina xlv
... Adam and Eve : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain that , in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
... Adam and Eve : Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters Eve . It is plain that , in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in the first line ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 13 - 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...
Pagina 66 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 5 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Pagina 4 - 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, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pagina 11 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Pagina 109 - 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...
Pagina 127 - But know that, in the soul, Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief: among these, Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests.
Pagina 110 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Pagina 7 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost — the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me.
Pagina 92 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...