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... Milton and Dante chose this spot , on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own , won from the void and formless Infinite , " and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back upon ...
... Milton and Dante chose this spot , on which with almost creative power they might show to mankind worlds of their own , won from the void and formless Infinite , " and from which their own heroic spirits might be reflected back upon ...
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... Milton says of our first parents , " was all before them , " and not within them , and their mission was to go forth and make a material impression on the material world . The soul of Homer was the mirror of this outward world , and in ...
... Milton says of our first parents , " was all before them , " and not within them , and their mission was to go forth and make a material impression on the material world . The soul of Homer was the mirror of this outward world , and in ...
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... Milton have failed ; and the causes which have operated against them , will always operate with increasing force against every attempt to represent the present or future development of the heroic character in action . It 14 EPIC POETRY .
... Milton have failed ; and the causes which have operated against them , will always operate with increasing force against every attempt to represent the present or future development of the heroic character in action . It 14 EPIC POETRY .
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... Milton . The subject chosen by Tasso , and the time of the action of his poem , bore the same relation to Chris- tian civilization as Homer's did to Grecian . It was the only age in which the heroic Christian character could be fully ...
... Milton . The subject chosen by Tasso , and the time of the action of his poem , bore the same relation to Chris- tian civilization as Homer's did to Grecian . It was the only age in which the heroic Christian character could be fully ...
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... Milton , arising from circumstances which have rendered the difficulty far more formidable since his time . If we consider Tasso as having chosen a subject exhibiting the first development of the Christian heroic character , the poem of ...
... Milton , arising from circumstances which have rendered the difficulty far more formidable since his time . If we consider Tasso as having chosen a subject exhibiting the first development of the Christian heroic character , the poem of ...
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admiration Aristotle beauty become beneath bloom bosom breast breath bright child childlike Christ Christian consciousness creations dæmon dark death Divine doth earth ence endeavor to show epic interest epic poem epic poetry eternal exhibit existence Father feel felt flower forever free agency gaze genius gift give Hamlet hand Harfleur hast hear heart heaven heroes heroic character heroic spirit Homer hour human mind Iliad impulse influence JAMES BROWN light live look Lucan Macbeth Menelaus Milton motive motley fool natural action never o'er objects onward ourselves outward Paradise Lost perfect play poet poet's Polonius possessed praise present rejoice rendered rest robes seems selfishness sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's mind song soul speak stand strange stream strongly sweet tell thee thine things thou thought tion tism tongue tree uncon unconscious utter Virgil visible voice wind wonder words
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 26 - Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress; foolish tongues! When God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 72 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal, and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...