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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... eloquence and argument was poured forth by men like Milton , thoroughly imbued with a sincere and humble reverence for God , and an ardent and intense anxiety for the welfare of their fellow - men , arguing the most momentous topics ...
... eloquence and argument was poured forth by men like Milton , thoroughly imbued with a sincere and humble reverence for God , and an ardent and intense anxiety for the welfare of their fellow - men , arguing the most momentous topics ...
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... eloquence of Mil- ton were employed to show the advantages which must follow to the English nation , from the total abolition of that re- strictive power . Sir W. Blackstone , in much later days , in his Commentaries on the Laws of ...
... eloquence of Mil- ton were employed to show the advantages which must follow to the English nation , from the total abolition of that re- strictive power . Sir W. Blackstone , in much later days , in his Commentaries on the Laws of ...
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... eloquent speeches of Erskinet and Mackintosh at the bar , was often quoted and relied on , but has been even cited ... eloquence . He adopts his motto from Euripides- " This is true liberty , when free - born men , Having to advise the ...
... eloquent speeches of Erskinet and Mackintosh at the bar , was often quoted and relied on , but has been even cited ... eloquence . He adopts his motto from Euripides- " This is true liberty , when free - born men , Having to advise the ...
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... learning . ” - And he utters this bitter and eloquent complaint from the depths of his capacious soul , which appears to me , I con- fess , of itself sufficient to settle the whole question . " When a man writes to the world , he 30.
... learning . ” - And he utters this bitter and eloquent complaint from the depths of his capacious soul , which appears to me , I con- fess , of itself sufficient to settle the whole question . " When a man writes to the world , he 30.
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... eloquent modern writer has said " the young pride of Louis , and the veteran craft " of Mazarin , stood rebuked ; which humbled Spain on the " land and Holland on the sea , and whose imperial voice " arrested the victorious arms of ...
... eloquent modern writer has said " the young pride of Louis , and the veteran craft " of Mazarin , stood rebuked ; which humbled Spain on the " land and Holland on the sea , and whose imperial voice " arrested the victorious arms of ...
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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.