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" Roman empire, has described the birth of its great rival, the Carthaginian commonwealth : Milton, with the like art in his poem on the fall of man, has related the fall of those angels who are his professed enemies. "
The Spectator - Page 67
1738
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...thole Angels who are his profefled enemies. Befide the many other beauties in fnch an epifode, its running parallel with the great action of the poem,...that had not fo great an affinity with the principal fubjeft. In fhort, this is the fame kind of beauty which the critics admire in the Spanifh Fryar, or...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...enemies. Befide the many other beauties in fuch an epifode, its running parallel with the great ruHion of the poem, hinders it from breaking the unity fo...that had not fo great an affinity with the principal fubjeft. In fhort, this is the fame kind of beauty which tht critics admire in the Spanifh Fryar, or...
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A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ...

William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pages
...thofe Angels who are his profeffed Enemies. Befide the many other Beauties in fuch an Epifode, its running parallel with the great Action of the Poem,...Epifode would have done, that had not fo great an B 3 Affinity Affinity with the principal Subjeft. In fhort, this 19 the fame Kind of Beauty which the...
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A Familiar Explanation of the Poetical Works of Milton: To which is Prefixed ...

John Milton, William Dodd - 1762 - 284 pages
...Enemies. Befide the many other Beauties in fuch an Epifode, its running parallel with the great A&ion of the Poem, hinders it from breaking the Unity fo...Epifode would have done, that had not fo great an B 3 Affinity Affinity with the principal Subjeft. In fhort, this is the fame Kind of Beauty which the...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...epifode, its running parallel with the great action of the poem, hinder;, it from breaking the unity (o much as another epifode would have done, that had not fo great an affinity with^ the principal iubjccl. Infhort, this is the fame kind of beauty which the criiics sdmire in the Spanifh Fryar, or...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...epifode, its running parallel with the great Acrion of the Poem hinders it from breaking the Unity in much as another epifode would have done that had not fo great an affinity with the principal fubjeft. In Ihort, this is the fame kind of beauty which the cri. tics admire in the Spanifh Friar;...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...thole angels who are his profeffed enemies. Belides the many other beauties in fuch an epifode, its running parallel with the great action of the poem...that had not fo great an affinity with the principal fubject. In fhort, this is the fame kind of beauty which the critics admire in the Spanifh Kriar, or...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History ..., Volume 13

English poetry - 1793 - 752 pages
...beauties in fuch an epifodè, [that of the fall of the angels,] its running parallel with the great aition of the poem hinders it from breaking the unity fo...that had not fo great an affinity with the principal fubjecb In fhort, this is the fame kind of beauty which the critics admire in the Spaniih Friar, or...
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Select British Classics, Volume 14

English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...those angels who are his professed enemies. Besides the many other beauties in such an episode, its running parallel with the great action of the poem hinders it from breaking the unity so much as another episode would have done, that had not so great an affinity with the principal subject....
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...those angels who are his professed enemies. Besides the many other beauties in such an episode, its running parallel with the great action of the poem, hinders it from breaking the unity so much as another episode would have done, that had not so great an affinity with the principal subject....
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