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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... less read than it deserves to be . It should receive the perusal , as it must excite the interest , of every one endowed with the slightest intellectual curiosity , for it contains the mature thoughts of one of the greatest of human ...
... less read than it deserves to be . It should receive the perusal , as it must excite the interest , of every one endowed with the slightest intellectual curiosity , for it contains the mature thoughts of one of the greatest of human ...
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... less to an in- ward prompting , which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave some- thing so ...
... less to an in- ward prompting , which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) joined with the strong propensity of nature , I might perhaps leave some- thing so ...
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... less mournful . ' * To him the sententious power of Tacitus , the dignified per- spicuity of Livy , the simplicity of Cæsar , the majesty of Virgil , and the tenderness of Tibullus , were familiar ; and the riches of the ancient world ...
... less mournful . ' * To him the sententious power of Tacitus , the dignified per- spicuity of Livy , the simplicity of Cæsar , the majesty of Virgil , and the tenderness of Tibullus , were familiar ; and the riches of the ancient world ...
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... less danger , scout into the regions of sin and falsity , than by all manner of tractates , and hearing all manner of reason ? " After having thus forcibly shewn the necessity , nay the use of promiscuous reading , he answers the ...
... less danger , scout into the regions of sin and falsity , than by all manner of tractates , and hearing all manner of reason ? " After having thus forcibly shewn the necessity , nay the use of promiscuous reading , he answers the ...
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... my dear home no more must I return ; " But lasting glory will adorn my urn . " But , if I withdraw from the martial strife , " Short is my fame , but long will be my life . " I considered that many had purchased less good by a 36.
... my dear home no more must I return ; " But lasting glory will adorn my urn . " But , if I withdraw from the martial strife , " Short is my fame , but long will be my life . " I considered that many had purchased less good by a 36.
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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.