The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1William Tegg & Company, 1853 |
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Page xiii
... images , might not be found scattered in preceding poets , as Spenser , Shakspeare , Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas : but they could not be found combined into a uniform and unbroken texture , nor ...
... images , might not be found scattered in preceding poets , as Spenser , Shakspeare , Ben Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas : but they could not be found combined into a uniform and unbroken texture , nor ...
Page xx
... images have not the raciness and wildness of the descriptions in his English poems . Warton speaks of it as excellent in all the requisites of poetry . Here Milton says that his poetical genius returns in the spring : in later life , he ...
... images have not the raciness and wildness of the descriptions in his English poems . Warton speaks of it as excellent in all the requisites of poetry . Here Milton says that his poetical genius returns in the spring : in later life , he ...
Page xxi
... image , sometimes an epithet displays it . A holy inspiration had already commenced in his mind . The tone of the sacred ... images , except in a few passages of the latter poem . The metre wants variety and sonorousness . The passages I ...
... image , sometimes an epithet displays it . A holy inspiration had already commenced in his mind . The tone of the sacred ... images , except in a few passages of the latter poem . The metre wants variety and sonorousness . The passages I ...
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... images are within every one's observance ; but this is not , I think , a high merit : the poet's eyes should " give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name . ' Here the images , for the most part , are such as actually exist ...
... images are within every one's observance ; but this is not , I think , a high merit : the poet's eyes should " give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name . ' Here the images , for the most part , are such as actually exist ...
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... images are selected by sentiment , and so arranged as to produce a particular tone of sentiment . If it be so , the sentiment is not brought out ; and the poet ought not to trust to others to bring out that which he ought to express ...
... images are selected by sentiment , and so arranged as to produce a particular tone of sentiment . If it be so , the sentiment is not brought out ; and the poet ought not to trust to others to bring out that which he ought to express ...
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