The Epic of Paradise Lost: Twelve EssaysG. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 - 375 páginas |
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A. B. Grosart Adam and Eve Adam in Ballingschap Adam's fall Adamus Exsul Æneid allegory appear apple archangel artistic Asmodé attempt battle beauty Beelzebub Belial Book Cædmon characterisation characters Christ Christian Doctrine classic concrete contest created death declares defect devices dignity divine draft dramatic earth edition epic background epic form epic method episode essay Eve's fall of Lucifer fallen angels fruit garden of Eden God's Grotius heaven heavenly hell hero human Iliad imagination interest John Milton L'Adamo light London loss Lucifer's Luciferians lyric man's fall marvels ment mercy Michael Migné mind motive mystery nature Paradise Lost philosophical play plot poem poet poetical portrayal present problem Ptolemaic system question Raphael reason resistance reveals Satan scene serpent Shakespeare song spirit spiritual conceptions Stadtholder Star story temptation theme thou tion tragedy train of thought Treatise on Christian tree of knowledge triumph universal victory Vondel woman
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Página 42 - 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...
Página 345 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 251 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 340 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Página 345 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Página 43 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 330 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Página 347 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Página 342 - 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...
Página 101 - Be strong, live happy, and love ! But, first of all, Him, whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command : take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit...