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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... benefit of mankind . If any doubt , indeed , can be entertained by any person on this point , it may be dispelled by a few moments ' reflection on his temporal fortunes . His poverty and neglect in the later period of his life , I may ...
... benefit of mankind . If any doubt , indeed , can be entertained by any person on this point , it may be dispelled by a few moments ' reflection on his temporal fortunes . His poverty and neglect in the later period of his life , I may ...
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... benefit of his fellow creatures . Bearing this great and noble principle of action in mind , let us now trace him more particularly in his career . And , I know not how it is pos- sible to give you so concise and yet comprehensive a des ...
... benefit of his fellow creatures . Bearing this great and noble principle of action in mind , let us now trace him more particularly in his career . And , I know not how it is pos- sible to give you so concise and yet comprehensive a des ...
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... benefits of conjugal society , which are solace and peace , is a reason of divorce , especially if there be no chil- " dren , and that there be mutual consent . " But he protests against being understood to mean , " that licence and ...
... benefits of conjugal society , which are solace and peace , is a reason of divorce , especially if there be no chil- " dren , and that there be mutual consent . " But he protests against being understood to mean , " that licence and ...
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... benefit and save from the follies into which they fell , and the bitter consciousness that all his efforts were unavailing , and that his old age must pass in witness- ing the destruction of what his manhood had been spent in the vain ...
... benefit and save from the follies into which they fell , and the bitter consciousness that all his efforts were unavailing , and that his old age must pass in witness- ing the destruction of what his manhood had been spent in the vain ...
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... benefit of our fellow creatures , is a devout reverence for the providence of GOD , and remember that Milton was the man who , bowing in humble adoration at the invisible throne of Omnipotent wisdom , addressed his fervent prayer for ...
... benefit of our fellow creatures , is a devout reverence for the providence of GOD , and remember that Milton was the man who , bowing in humble adoration at the invisible throne of Omnipotent wisdom , addressed his fervent prayer for ...
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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.