Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ElucidationsHurst and Blackett, 1870 - 338 pages |
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... , " any such magnificent passage which has fallen from the pen of so great a man , though it may lie buried beneath a mass of rubbish . To search after B these in a reverential and loving spirit , and to THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... , " any such magnificent passage which has fallen from the pen of so great a man , though it may lie buried beneath a mass of rubbish . To search after B these in a reverential and loving spirit , and to THE EDITOR'S PREFACE.
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... spirit , and to hold them forth to the admiring gaze of others , rejecting all that seems written in the style of Cobbett , by whose side we can hardly conceive an angel to have sat , save to weep , is the plan of the following work ...
... spirit , and to hold them forth to the admiring gaze of others , rejecting all that seems written in the style of Cobbett , by whose side we can hardly conceive an angel to have sat , save to weep , is the plan of the following work ...
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... Spirit ? ) " from those uttered , we are constrained to confess , in malice and bitterness , and all uncharitable- ness ; and thus to save our readers the cost of pur- chasing , and the trouble of wading through , the five volumes of ...
... Spirit ? ) " from those uttered , we are constrained to confess , in malice and bitterness , and all uncharitable- ness ; and thus to save our readers the cost of pur- chasing , and the trouble of wading through , the five volumes of ...
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... spirit pure . And twenty years after , when he abandoned prose , and once more with renewed ardour " wandered where the muses haunt , " " escaped the Stygian pool " of politics and con- troversy , " though long detained in that obscure ...
... spirit pure . And twenty years after , when he abandoned prose , and once more with renewed ardour " wandered where the muses haunt , " " escaped the Stygian pool " of politics and con- troversy , " though long detained in that obscure ...
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... spirit from the starry threshold of Jove's court , " and in shepherd weeds leads on the brothers to her rescue ; and the necromancer is put to flight , but not till he has bound up the lady in fetters of stone ; and Sabrina hastens from ...
... spirit from the starry threshold of Jove's court , " and in shepherd weeds leads on the brothers to her rescue ; and the necromancer is put to flight , but not till he has bound up the lady in fetters of stone ; and Sabrina hastens from ...
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Page 235 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Page 153 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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.
Page 201 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Page 221 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 164 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 286 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 85 - 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; 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...
Page 230 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 212 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 210 - Commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.