Blackwood's Magazine, Volym 72W. Blackwood, 1852 |
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... SEWARD . NORTH . THE great Epic Poets of Antiquity began with invoking superhuman aid to their human powers . They magnified their subject by such a confession , that their unassisted strength was unequal to worthily treating it ; and ...
... SEWARD . NORTH . THE great Epic Poets of Antiquity began with invoking superhuman aid to their human powers . They magnified their subject by such a confession , that their unassisted strength was unequal to worthily treating it ; and ...
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... SEWARD . He opens the Paradise Lost with Two Invocations . Both implore aid . But the aid asked in one and in the other is different in kind , as the Two Powers , of whom the aid is asked , are also wholly different . Let us look at ...
... SEWARD . He opens the Paradise Lost with Two Invocations . Both implore aid . But the aid asked in one and in the other is different in kind , as the Two Powers , of whom the aid is asked , are also wholly different . Let us look at ...
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SEWARD . She is the Muse who , when the Hebrew tribes were at length seated in the promised land - when Zion in the stead of Sinai was the chosen Mountain of God - inspired Psalmists and Prophets . TALBOYS . And the reason is manifest ...
SEWARD . She is the Muse who , when the Hebrew tribes were at length seated in the promised land - when Zion in the stead of Sinai was the chosen Mountain of God - inspired Psalmists and Prophets . TALBOYS . And the reason is manifest ...
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... SEWARD . I consider the free daring with which all Poets of the modern world , at least , have , for the uses of their Art , converted Powers and Agencies into imaginary beings . I consider the respects in which the Poet has need of AID ...
... SEWARD . I consider the free daring with which all Poets of the modern world , at least , have , for the uses of their Art , converted Powers and Agencies into imaginary beings . I consider the respects in which the Poet has need of AID ...
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... SEWARD . We must ask - What does , in ordinary Verse , not in sacred poetry , a Christian poet mean , when He names , and yet more when he invokes , the Muse - the Sacred Sisters nine ? And we are thrown upon recognising the widely ...
... SEWARD . We must ask - What does , in ordinary Verse , not in sacred poetry , a Christian poet mean , when He names , and yet more when he invokes , the Muse - the Sacred Sisters nine ? And we are thrown upon recognising the widely ...
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Sida 132 - That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Sida 382 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
Sida 386 - 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.
Sida 382 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Sida 380 - Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empire — that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in th' excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny...
Sida 380 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Sida 132 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Sida 386 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Sida 386 - ... suage With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they, Breathing united force, with fixed thought...
Sida 386 - A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving : with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable...