The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page 283
... Samson Agonistes , but who has left behind him a variety of subjects for the drama selected at a period subsequent to the publication of the Icono- clastes from prophane history , among which is the story of Macbeth , is abundantly ...
... Samson Agonistes , but who has left behind him a variety of subjects for the drama selected at a period subsequent to the publication of the Icono- clastes from prophane history , among which is the story of Macbeth , is abundantly ...
Page 437
... Samson Agonistes . " God of our fathers ! what is man ! That thou towards him with hand so various , Or might I say contrarious , Temper'st thy providence through his short course Not evenly , as thou rulest The angelic orders , and ...
... Samson Agonistes . " God of our fathers ! what is man ! That thou towards him with hand so various , Or might I say contrarious , Temper'st thy providence through his short course Not evenly , as thou rulest The angelic orders , and ...
Page 486
... Samson Agonistes , pocms , of unequal merit , which require us to pause in the narrative for the purpose of making them the subjects of our transient observation . That considerable disappointment was felt on the first appearance of the ...
... Samson Agonistes , pocms , of unequal merit , which require us to pause in the narrative for the purpose of making them the subjects of our transient observation . That considerable disappointment was felt on the first appearance of the ...
Page 490
... Samson Agonistes " Shakespere , in Hamlet . Aywerys . ( Agonistes ) Certator ; Qui certat gymnica cer- tamina . Athleta - Pugil . ( Step . Thes . ) - A contender in those public games of Greece , which were peculiarly called Aywres ...
... Samson Agonistes " Shakespere , in Hamlet . Aywerys . ( Agonistes ) Certator ; Qui certat gymnica cer- tamina . Athleta - Pugil . ( Step . Thes . ) - A contender in those public games of Greece , which were peculiarly called Aywres ...
Page 493
... Samson Agonistes , in consequence of the er- roneous taste with which it has been con- structed , it must be allowed egregiously to have failed . The year , succeeding the publication of this grand and solemn poem , witnessed a se- cond ...
... Samson Agonistes , in consequence of the er- roneous taste with which it has been con- structed , it must be allowed egregiously to have failed . The year , succeeding the publication of this grand and solemn poem , witnessed a se- cond ...
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