 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host, and the punishment of their crimes ; the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the...innocence, their forfeiture of immortality, and their re. storation to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 822
...against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the overthrow of their ho«, and the punishment of their crime ; the creation of...creatures; their original happiness and innocence, iheir forfeiture of immortality, and their restoration to hope and |>eace." An epic poem, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings — the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth •, rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings — the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...the fate of -worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth ; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents arc the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind : with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...of VOL. vi. M worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth ; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the...elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton s poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the...happiness and innocence, their forfeiture of immortality, fend their restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded only by persons... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of their host and the punishment of their enemies, the creation of a new race of reasonable creatures...immortality, and their restoration to hope and peace. Here is a full display of the united force of study and genius, of a greater accumulation of materials,... | |
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The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth;... 
