An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise Lost |
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... give public expression to their opinions . Had I devoted that time and labour to modern literature , the result might have been widely different . The present volume may perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly ...
... give public expression to their opinions . Had I devoted that time and labour to modern literature , the result might have been widely different . The present volume may perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly ...
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... gives no indication of their original social posi- tion . It only shows that at one time they dwelt in or came from that place , and the name was given alike to the homeless vagrant and the lord of the manor . In the sixteenth century a ...
... gives no indication of their original social posi- tion . It only shows that at one time they dwelt in or came from that place , and the name was given alike to the homeless vagrant and the lord of the manor . In the sixteenth century a ...
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... -Defensio Secunda . Todd gives the following extracts from the registry of Allhal- lows : - 1 " The xyth daye of July , 1642 , was baptized Sara , the daughter of John Milton , third of the name , was born 4 . LIFE OF MILTON .
... -Defensio Secunda . Todd gives the following extracts from the registry of Allhal- lows : - 1 " The xyth daye of July , 1642 , was baptized Sara , the daughter of John Milton , third of the name , was born 4 . LIFE OF MILTON .
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... give some specimens of his li- terary powers , he used for this purpose such of his Latin poems as he retained in his memory , to which he added the Italian sonnets which he composed while there , all of which were received with ...
... give some specimens of his li- terary powers , he used for this purpose such of his Latin poems as he retained in his memory , to which he added the Italian sonnets which he composed while there , all of which were received with ...
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... gives of his travels , Milton expresses himself in the following terms : - " Here again I take God to witness , that I lived in all those places , where so much license is given , free from and untouched by any kind of vice and infamy ...
... gives of his travels , Milton expresses himself in the following terms : - " Here again I take God to witness , that I lived in all those places , where so much license is given , free from and untouched by any kind of vice and infamy ...
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Page 367 - 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 mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Page 345 - 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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...
Page 343 - ... 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 ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of 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...
Page 295 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 343 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue through all the instances of example with such delight, to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed...
Page 116 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd...
Page 351 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...
Page 226 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages...
Page 342 - Job a brief, model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art, and use judgement, is no transgression, but an enriching of art : and lastly, what king or knight, before the conquest, might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
Page 460 - And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.