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... speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . From this time onward there entered into his very soul the hatred of priesthood . The Roman Catholic religion , in particular , seemed to him the very type of intolerance and ...
... speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . From this time onward there entered into his very soul the hatred of priesthood . The Roman Catholic religion , in particular , seemed to him the very type of intolerance and ...
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... speak , " humanity " of the poet's soul . He feels sympathy for all feelings of the human heart , even en- compassing apparently contradictory ones . Now Milton is the least dramatic of the poets ; he has no skill in cre- ating ...
... speak , " humanity " of the poet's soul . He feels sympathy for all feelings of the human heart , even en- compassing apparently contradictory ones . Now Milton is the least dramatic of the poets ; he has no skill in cre- ating ...
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... speak , that describes but little , but consists in a sort of sympathy for the very growth of all beings , as though Milton recognized in himself the same generous forces as in vegetation and the luxuriance of animal generation : O ...
... speak , that describes but little , but consists in a sort of sympathy for the very growth of all beings , as though Milton recognized in himself the same generous forces as in vegetation and the luxuriance of animal generation : O ...
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... speaking thus , is a part of Milton's soul , even as Satan will be later . But , ruling high above these deeper powers of feeling , which are but half - awakened as yet , sits Reason . Comus is one long praise of temper- ance , self ...
... speaking thus , is a part of Milton's soul , even as Satan will be later . But , ruling high above these deeper powers of feeling , which are but half - awakened as yet , sits Reason . Comus is one long praise of temper- ance , self ...
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... speak , ran up a debit account against God's name , hoping that one day God would pay up . He trusted that once the work was done God would grant him life and force and courage to sing of the great triumph , and would allow him to be ...
... speak , ran up a debit account against God's name , hoping that one day God would pay up . He trusted that once the work was done God would grant him life and force and courage to sing of the great triumph , and would allow him to be ...
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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.