The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 94
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
... original happiness and innocence , their forfeiture of immortality , and their restoration to hope and peace . Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated dignity . Before the greatness displayed in Milton's ...
Pagina 99
... original formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners , till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that ...
... original formation of this poem , that , as it admits no human manners , till the fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that ...
Pagina 101
... original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of immediate obser- vation . He saw nature , as Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of books ; " and , on most occasions , calls learning to his assistance ...
... original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of immediate obser- vation . He saw nature , as Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of books ; " and , on most occasions , calls learning to his assistance ...
Pagina 106
... original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its ...
... original deficience cannot be supplied . The want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its ...
Pagina 115
... original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the struc- ture of an epick poem , and , therefore , owes rever- ence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted for the art of poetical ...
... original invention . Milton cannot be said to have contrived the struc- ture of an epick poem , and , therefore , owes rever- ence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted for the art of poetical ...
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