Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his inferences as in his citations . Some of the heterodox ...
... Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his inferences as in his citations . Some of the heterodox ...
Pagina 4
... Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to ...
... Milton , the poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English litera- ture , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to ...
Pagina 5
... Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born ' an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of ...
... Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born ' an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of ...
Pagina 6
... They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may 6 MILTON .
... They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may 6 MILTON .
Pagina 7
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet , -a fine frenzy doubtless , MILTON . 7.
... things unknown , the poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet , -a fine frenzy doubtless , MILTON . 7.
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