The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 Seiten |
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... thing in the defence . Between the false and the true in com- position the separating line is strong and broad . Where ideas strut in a pomp of ex- pression , to which they can allege no claim ; where they are oppressed with an incum ...
... thing in the defence . Between the false and the true in com- position the separating line is strong and broad . Where ideas strut in a pomp of ex- pression , to which they can allege no claim ; where they are oppressed with an incum ...
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... thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principles to pas- sion , inflicted , in the earlier periods of the last century , some fatal wounds on the con- stitution ; or with those men ...
... thing in common , but a name , with that malignant and selfish faction which , surrendering principles to pas- sion , inflicted , in the earlier periods of the last century , some fatal wounds on the con- stitution ; or with those men ...
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... thing is mentioned , is John Mil- ton , the grandfather of our author ; and of him we are told nothing more than that he was under - ranger of the forest of Shotover in his native county ; that he was a zealous ca- tholic , and that he ...
... thing is mentioned , is John Mil- ton , the grandfather of our author ; and of him we are told nothing more than that he was under - ranger of the forest of Shotover in his native county ; that he was a zealous ca- tholic , and that he ...
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... things which are not to be submitted to by a mind and temper like mine . If it be banishment to return to a father's house , and there , exempt from cares , to possess de- lightful leisure , I will not refuse even the name and the lot ...
... things which are not to be submitted to by a mind and temper like mine . If it be banishment to return to a father's house , and there , exempt from cares , to possess de- lightful leisure , I will not refuse even the name and the lot ...
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... thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish the charges Hither , ' tis thought , came wafted ...
... thing that I have written . " Notwithstanding this strong assertion , the hostility of the present generation has again brought the evidence of Milton to convict Milton , and to establish the charges Hither , ' tis thought , came wafted ...
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Seite 252 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 151 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Seite 389 - CVRIAC, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.
Seite 394 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Seite 151 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Seite 507 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Seite 254 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...