A Lecture on the Writings: Prose and Poetic, and Character, Public and Personal, of John Milton, Delivered at Several Metropolitan Literary InstitutionsH. Hooper, 1838 - 55 pages |
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... ancient prophets , yet the irksomeness of that truth which they brought was so unpleasant unto them , that every where they call it a burden . ' Yea , that mysterious book of Revelation , which the great evangelist was bid to eat , as ...
... ancient prophets , yet the irksomeness of that truth which they brought was so unpleasant unto them , that every where they call it a burden . ' Yea , that mysterious book of Revelation , which the great evangelist was bid to eat , as ...
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... ancient languages are seldom reconcileable with the genius of ours , and " unless skilfuly as well as sparingly introduced , are at vari- " ance with the natural beauties of our prose composition . " It is difficult , perhaps , to deny ...
... ancient languages are seldom reconcileable with the genius of ours , and " unless skilfuly as well as sparingly introduced , are at vari- " ance with the natural beauties of our prose composition . " It is difficult , perhaps , to deny ...
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... ancient sages was thus parabled ; that love , if he be not twin - born , yet hath a brother wondrous like him , called Anteros ; whom while he seeks all about , his chance is to meet with many false and feign- ing desires , that wander ...
... ancient sages was thus parabled ; that love , if he be not twin - born , yet hath a brother wondrous like him , called Anteros ; whom while he seeks all about , his chance is to meet with many false and feign- ing desires , that wander ...
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... ancient state polity or church , nor by any statute left us by our ancestors , elder or later , nor from the modern custom of any reformed city or church abroad , but from the most anti - christian council , and the most tyrannous ...
... ancient state polity or church , nor by any statute left us by our ancestors , elder or later , nor from the modern custom of any reformed city or church abroad , but from the most anti - christian council , and the most tyrannous ...
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... ancient , and so eminent among us , that writers of good antiquity and able judgment , have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras , and the Persian wisdom , took beginning from the old philosophy of this island . And that ...
... ancient , and so eminent among us , that writers of good antiquity and able judgment , have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras , and the Persian wisdom , took beginning from the old philosophy of this island . And that ...
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Page 22 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land, he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistening with dew ; fragrant the. fertile earth After short showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 32 - 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 worst in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest sup*
Page 32 - undazzled eyes at the full mid-day 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 prognosticate a year of sects and
Page 26 - demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors ; for books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a progeny of life in them, to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are
Page 26 - intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost
Page 23 - and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild—then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train : But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest bird, nor
Page 29 - Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue nnexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by
Page 9 - Cyriac, this three-years'-day, these eyes, though clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs, doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout tlie year, Or man or woman. Yet I argue not
Page 48 - and th' excess 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 16 - all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.