Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 pagina's This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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Pagina 39
... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inad- vertency , or to the weakness of human nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every circumstance in so long a work . The ...
... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inad- vertency , or to the weakness of human nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every circumstance in so long a work . The ...
Pagina 77
... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
... natural port is gigantick loftiness . He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish . He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius , and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon ...
Pagina 374
... nature first and foremost , to that bent of nature for inequality which to the worshippers of the average man is so unacceptable ; to a gift , a divine favour . " The older one grows , " says Goethe , " the more one prizes natural gifts ...
... nature first and foremost , to that bent of nature for inequality which to the worshippers of the average man is so unacceptable ; to a gift , a divine favour . " The older one grows , " says Goethe , " the more one prizes natural gifts ...
Inhoudsopgave
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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