 ... subjected the minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances...  The Ceylon magazine - Page 129Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1892 - 214 pages
...as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitu25 tion of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with...and all things tended in him towards the sublime. Spenser, of a gentler nature, maintained his freedom by aid of his allegorical spirit, at one time... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893 - 394 pages
...abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface...and all things tended in him towards the sublime. Spenser, of a gentler nature, maintained his freedom by aid of his allegorical spirit, at one time... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1893 - 120 pages
...abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface...Hebrew in soul ; and all things tended in him towards 10 the sublime. Spenser, of a gentler nature, maintained his freedom by aid of his allegorical spirit,... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 252 pages
...epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However indued the surface might be with classical literature, he...was a Hebrew in soul ; and all things tended in him toward the sublime. SONNET ON MILTON. MILTON! thou should' st be living at this hour ; England hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However indued the surface might be with classical literature, he...was a Hebrew in soul ; and all things tended in him toward the sublime. SONNET ON MILTOJT. MILTON! thou should' st be living at this hour ; England hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However indued the surface might be with classical literature, he...was a Hebrew in soul ; and all things tended in him toward the sublime. SONNET ON MILTON. MILTON! thou should'st be living at this hour ; England hath... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors, English - 1905 - 292 pages
...abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface...and all things tended in him towards the sublime. Spenser, of a gentler nature, maintained his freedom, by aid of his allegorical spirit, at one time... | |
 | Kurt Lienemann - Books and reading - 1908 - 276 pages
...great epic poet" sei der Abscheu vor Götzendienst ebenso stark gewesen wie in den Seelen der Hebräer. "However imbued the surface might be with classical...and all things tended in him towards the sublime" (Vorrede 1815 K IV 323). W teilte Milton's Abneigung gegen den Anthropomorphismus der heidnischen Religion... | |
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