Milton on Education: The Tractate Of Education, with Supplementary Extracts from Other Writings of Milton |
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... eloquence as to give to their author a very high place among English writers . Of all Milton's pamphlets , the Tractate Of Education perhaps least owes its occasion to the urgency of political events , and most spontaneously grows out ...
... eloquence as to give to their author a very high place among English writers . Of all Milton's pamphlets , the Tractate Of Education perhaps least owes its occasion to the urgency of political events , and most spontaneously grows out ...
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... eloquence joined with the wisdom , specially Christian authors that wrote their wisdom with clean and chaste Latin , either in verse or prose ; but , above all , the Catechism in English ; after that 1Sandys , A History of Classical ...
... eloquence joined with the wisdom , specially Christian authors that wrote their wisdom with clean and chaste Latin , either in verse or prose ; but , above all , the Catechism in English ; after that 1Sandys , A History of Classical ...
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... eloquence , or to instruct in prudence , or to incite to brave deeds . . How much better would it be , Academicians , and how much more worthy of your reputation , to walk as it were with the eyes over the universe of earth as it is ...
... eloquence , or to instruct in prudence , or to incite to brave deeds . . How much better would it be , Academicians , and how much more worthy of your reputation , to walk as it were with the eyes over the universe of earth as it is ...
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... eloquent numbers ? That song will do for the sylvan choirs , but not for Orpheus , who with song and not with lute held back the rivers , and gave ears to the oaks , and moved the shades of the dead to tears ; these praises he has from ...
... eloquent numbers ? That song will do for the sylvan choirs , but not for Orpheus , who with song and not with lute held back the rivers , and gave ears to the oaks , and moved the shades of the dead to tears ; these praises he has from ...
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... eloquence and their learning , and both of Lydian blood , have taught my name to their beeches . Go home unfed , my lambs , your troubled master is not free to tend you . These things the dewy moon used to tell me , when happy and alone ...
... eloquence and their learning , and both of Lydian blood , have taught my name to their beeches . Go home unfed , my lambs , your troubled master is not free to tend you . These things the dewy moon used to tell me , when happy and alone ...
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Page 250 - 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...
Page 135 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs •'' Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout t Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 136 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek...
Page 87 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 249 - And yet. on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 107 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Page 301 - Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there. Be lowly wise ; Think only what concerns thee and thy being ; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree— Contented that thus far hath been revealed Not of Earth only, but of highest Heaven.
Page 163 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 106 - CYRIACK, 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 the year, Or man, or woman.
Page 169 - Spanish poets of prime note, have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...