THE PROSE WORKS OF JOHN MILTON: WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD. HE WAS IN HIS STYLE NAKED AND STERN; AND TO EFFEMINATE EARS PERCHANCE EVEN HARSH; BUT WHO WILL DARE DISPUTE SIR EGERTON BRYDGES. MILTON! THOU SHOULDST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR. RETURN TO US AGAIN, AND GIVE US MANNERS, VIRTUE, FREEDOM, POWER. THY SOUL WAS LIKE A STAR, AND DWELT APART THOT HADST A VOICE, WHOSE SOUND WAS LIKE THE SEA : ** CHEERFUL GODLINESS, AND YET THY HEART THE LOWLIEST DUTIES ON HERSELF DID LAY. WORDSWORTH. IN TWO VOLUMES. I. PHILADELPHIA: JOHN BALL, 48 NORTH FOURTH STREET. 1850. |