Some account of the life and writings of John MiltonRivingten, 1826 |
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... language are no less observable . I must here mention that the house , in which Milton * See Lysons's Middlesex , 1800. Harefield , p . 108 . 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
... language are no less observable . I must here mention that the house , in which Milton * See Lysons's Middlesex , 1800. Harefield , p . 108 . 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
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Henry John Todd. 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 1798 pulled down ; and that , during his residence at Horton , he had occasionally taken lodgings in Lon- don , in order to cultivate musick and mathematicks , to meet ...
Henry John Todd. 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 1798 pulled down ; and that , during his residence at Horton , he had occasionally taken lodgings in Lon- don , in order to cultivate musick and mathematicks , to meet ...
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... returning from her country employment . " As we ascended the hill , the variety of beautiful objects , the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity ' of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure 24 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
... returning from her country employment . " As we ascended the hill , the variety of beautiful objects , the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity ' of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure 24 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
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Henry John Todd. of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure . We at length reached the spot , whence Milton undoubt- edly took most of his images ; it is on the top of the hill , from which there is a most extensive pros- pect on ...
Henry John Todd. of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure . We at length reached the spot , whence Milton undoubt- edly took most of his images ; it is on the top of the hill , from which there is a most extensive pros- pect on ...
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... scene of the terrible and the pathetick ; but this va- luable curiosity was unfortunately lost in a ship- wreck ... scenes as graceful and sublime as can be met with in the poems of the Grecian and Roman bards for , in the words of Mr ...
... scene of the terrible and the pathetick ; but this va- luable curiosity was unfortunately lost in a ship- wreck ... scenes as graceful and sublime as can be met with in the poems of the Grecian and Roman bards for , in the words of Mr ...
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Page 45 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 224 - ... that by labour and intent 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 44 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether 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...
Page 182 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which, being brought, he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 45 - But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable.
Page 216 - Firm concord holds ; men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That, day and night, for his destruction wait.
Page 16 - Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest, Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Page 235 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason ; and to servitude reduce Man, till then free. Therefore, since...
Page 16 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page xi - 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...