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... hath been.21 In particular , the poems are full of amorous and more than half voluptuous feeling . Milton could muse in his youth in this wise : Alas ! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And ...
... hath been.21 In particular , the poems are full of amorous and more than half voluptuous feeling . Milton could muse in his youth in this wise : Alas ! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And ...
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... Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.25 Curious as this passage is , the following , woven round a few sentences of Plato's Phado , is more important still , as showing the beginnings of some of Milton's later and most original ...
... Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.25 Curious as this passage is , the following , woven round a few sentences of Plato's Phado , is more important still , as showing the beginnings of some of Milton's later and most original ...
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... hath made thee . Or else I should have heard on the other ear : Slothful , and ever to be set light by , the church hath now overcome her late distresses after the unwearied labors of many her true servants that stood up in her defence ...
... hath made thee . Or else I should have heard on the other ear : Slothful , and ever to be set light by , the church hath now overcome her late distresses after the unwearied labors of many her true servants that stood up in her defence ...
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... hath oftimes led me into a serious question and debatement with myself , how it should come to pass that England ( having had this grace and honour from God , to be the first that should set up a standard for the recovery of lost truth ...
... hath oftimes led me into a serious question and debatement with myself , how it should come to pass that England ( having had this grace and honour from God , to be the first that should set up a standard for the recovery of lost truth ...
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... hath been plainly discoursed ; but let them make for them as much as they will , yet why we ought not to stand to their arbitrament , shall now appear by a threefold corruption which will be found upon them . I. The best times were ...
... hath been plainly discoursed ; but let them make for them as much as they will , yet why we ought not to stand to their arbitrament , shall now appear by a threefold corruption which will be found upon them . I. The best times were ...
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Page 240 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 184 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Page 74 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 262 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 169 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 76 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 11 - I was destined of a child, and in mine own resolutions: till coming to some maturity of years, and perceiving what tyranny had invaded the church, that he who would take orders must subscribe slave, and take an oath withal, which, unless he took with a conscience that would retch, he must either straight perjure, or split his faith; I thought it better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking, bought and begun with servitude and forswearing.
Page 215 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Page 292 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed...
Page 214 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.