 The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's...  Milton, with an Introduction and Notes - Σελίδα 52των Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 139 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 σελίδες
...answer returned by Adam, may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered. 30 imagination in the highest degree fervid and active,...said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his 5^'work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts. He had considered creation in its... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 428 σελίδες
...answer returned by Adam, may be confidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has delivered. The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited cariosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 σελίδες
...returned by Adam, may be cont fidently opposed to any rule of life which any poet has jo delivered. The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in...materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited 15 curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 σελίδες
...pimpernels," and so forth, and to all our botanical and nursery-garden poets, this sentence of Dr. Johnson : " The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts." Flowery ladies and gentlemen, apply this to your botany. And finally, to conclude all that we can find... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 σελίδες
...perhaps no poem, of the same length, from which so little can be taken without apparent mutilation. . . . The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in...which materials were supplied by incessant study and ultimate curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind may be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
...ordinariness, dissolves in the seriousness which comes upon his mind when filled by the "mens dwinior" "The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts" (I, 177). The movement of the "Life of Milton" from Milton's personal characteristics to the manifestation... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...extraordinarily beautiful by his greater seriousness when his mind is filled by the "mens divinior": "The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts" (para. 229). Appropriating the rich image of Milton's being made pregnant by the Muse, as the "vast... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 σελίδες
...Strange Shades o'erbrow the Valleys deep . . ."35 Even Johnson describes Milton's power as the product of "an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active,...spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts . . . The characteristick quality of his poem is sublimity."3'* It may seem that readings of Milton... | |
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