 The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Sayfa 159Samuel Johnson tarafından - 1806Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1920 - 492 sayfa
...noted approvingly that Milton's " invitations to pleasure are so general that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy." 7S The adapter, for his part, spared no pains to show his disapproval of this sort of thing. He cures... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 sayfa
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distindt images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. Ibid., W, II, 153. ALL poetry is artificial, . . . the Iliad itself is artificial in a very eminent... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - 1970 - 434 sayfa
...and jollity. . . .The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious.' 'At last the Brothers enter, with too much tranquillity; and when they have feared lest their sister should be in danger, and hoped that she is not in danger, the Elder makes a speech... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 sayfa
...listen 'unreproved,' because his 'invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy.'* * Dr. Johnson, in his Lift of Milton. 87. Penn on Samson Agonistes 1798 Extract from John Penn, Critical,... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 sayfa
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
 | Thomas Augustine Arne, John Milton - 1974 - 210 sayfa
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
 | 1920 - 490 sayfa
...noted approvingly that Milton's " invitations to pleasure are so general that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy." " The adapter, for his part, spared no pains to show his disapproval of this sort of thing. He cures Milton's... | |
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