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Page xiii
... See Francini's fine Panegyrick Ode in Ho- nour of Milton Prefix'd to the Juvenile Latin Poems , and Milton's Own Letter to Buonmatteo , the 8th of his Latin Epiftles . ' twas Written from Florence , in 1638. I will give a fmall Part of ...
... See Francini's fine Panegyrick Ode in Ho- nour of Milton Prefix'd to the Juvenile Latin Poems , and Milton's Own Letter to Buonmatteo , the 8th of his Latin Epiftles . ' twas Written from Florence , in 1638. I will give a fmall Part of ...
Page lix
... See this E- loquent Man faying to You as to the late Lord Ranelagh when at the University , and in Some Measure under His Care . he Thus , writes to Him . ( See Tol . in Milton's Life , p . 124. ) Learn Thou from thy Childhood to Dif ...
... See this E- loquent Man faying to You as to the late Lord Ranelagh when at the University , and in Some Measure under His Care . he Thus , writes to Him . ( See Tol . in Milton's Life , p . 124. ) Learn Thou from thy Childhood to Dif ...
Page lxiii
... See nothing that is Sound and Solid ; Mine , Takes from Me only the Colour and Surface of Things , but does Not Take ... See ? How many which I can be Debar'd the Sight of without Repi- ning ? How Few Left which I Much Defire to See ...
... See nothing that is Sound and Solid ; Mine , Takes from Me only the Colour and Surface of Things , but does Not Take ... See ? How many which I can be Debar'd the Sight of without Repi- ning ? How Few Left which I Much Defire to See ...
Page cvi
... See him to be a Great Poet , they look on him as Shining with a Sort of Difaftrous Light , will , if they poffefs Good Minds , Rejoice in finding a Character Amiably Bright , where they Expected no Such ; and will perhaps Read Him with ...
... See him to be a Great Poet , they look on him as Shining with a Sort of Difaftrous Light , will , if they poffefs Good Minds , Rejoice in finding a Character Amiably Bright , where they Expected no Such ; and will perhaps Read Him with ...
Page cvii
... See Toland's Edit . of his Profe - Works , p . 221. I will quote Two or Three Paffages . I began Thus far to Affent both to Them [ his Italian Friends ] and divers of my Friends Here at Home ; and not lefs to an Inward Prompting which ...
... See Toland's Edit . of his Profe - Works , p . 221. I will quote Two or Three Paffages . I began Thus far to Affent both to Them [ his Italian Friends ] and divers of my Friends Here at Home ; and not lefs to an Inward Prompting which ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.