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... liberty , rational as well as irrational , were alarmed at the Tory critic's extravagant attacks on their favourite doctrines . Dr. Charles Symmons stepped forward with a new life of the poet ; but it was coarsely and heavily , though ...
... liberty , rational as well as irrational , were alarmed at the Tory critic's extravagant attacks on their favourite doctrines . Dr. Charles Symmons stepped forward with a new life of the poet ; but it was coarsely and heavily , though ...
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... with sincerity . I hope that I have not been guilty of indulging in common- place , clothed in a pompous profusion of empty words . If I have been severe on Johnson , it is not a liberty so great as he has himself taken PREFACE . XXV.
... with sincerity . I hope that I have not been guilty of indulging in common- place , clothed in a pompous profusion of empty words . If I have been severe on Johnson , it is not a liberty so great as he has himself taken PREFACE . XXV.
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John Milton Sir Egerton Brydges. not a liberty so great as he has himself taken on the sublimest and noblest of our poets . I have given reasons for the judgments I have ventured to pronounce ; and if the principles of poetry , which I ...
John Milton Sir Egerton Brydges. not a liberty so great as he has himself taken on the sublimest and noblest of our poets . I have given reasons for the judgments I have ventured to pronounce ; and if the principles of poetry , which I ...
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... liberty and self - government . As he was a reader of the most abstruse books , he entangled himself in the webs of controversy . When King James died , March 27th , 1625 , Milton was yet a boy , aged sixteen . That mo- narch could ...
... liberty and self - government . As he was a reader of the most abstruse books , he entangled himself in the webs of controversy . When King James died , March 27th , 1625 , Milton was yet a boy , aged sixteen . That mo- narch could ...
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... liberty , then breaking out into open contest , Johnson considers this occu- pation a falling off from his boasted high inten- tions , and utters a growling sort of merriment at the failure . This is in the tone of the biogra- pher's ...
... liberty , then breaking out into open contest , Johnson considers this occu- pation a falling off from his boasted high inten- tions , and utters a growling sort of merriment at the failure . This is in the tone of the biogra- pher's ...
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Page 210 - 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.
Page 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Page 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 100 - 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...
Page 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.