Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost |
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... should bring forth a Bafe - born Ijue of Divinity , ( That is the Subject he is upon in particular ) like that of those imperfect and Putrid Creatures that receive a Crawling Life from two Moft Unlike Procreants , the Sun and Mudd . and ...
... should bring forth a Bafe - born Ijue of Divinity , ( That is the Subject he is upon in particular ) like that of those imperfect and Putrid Creatures that receive a Crawling Life from two Moft Unlike Procreants , the Sun and Mudd . and ...
Page xi
... should make my felf fo Poor as to follicit Needily any fuch kind of Rich Hopes as this Fortune - teller dreams of . It is to be Noted he was Yet Unmarried . His Early Application to Study , and Success in it , Himself gives Us an ...
... should make my felf fo Poor as to follicit Needily any fuch kind of Rich Hopes as this Fortune - teller dreams of . It is to be Noted he was Yet Unmarried . His Early Application to Study , and Success in it , Himself gives Us an ...
Page xvii
... should mean by it , a Conftant , Uniform , Univerfal Regularity of Manners . Vertue that Wavers is not Vertue , but Vice revolted from it Jelf , and after a While returning . Thefe are his own Words . but of This More hereafter . a 2 ...
... should mean by it , a Conftant , Uniform , Univerfal Regularity of Manners . Vertue that Wavers is not Vertue , but Vice revolted from it Jelf , and after a While returning . Thefe are his own Words . but of This More hereafter . a 2 ...
Page xix
... should agree in Mutual Good Will , Forbearance and Cha- rity . Humanum eft Errare . Not only his Political Principles have been Cenfur'd , but his Behaviour under them as Virulent , and Dishonest . Milton appears to have had a Natural ...
... should agree in Mutual Good Will , Forbearance and Cha- rity . Humanum eft Errare . Not only his Political Principles have been Cenfur'd , but his Behaviour under them as Virulent , and Dishonest . Milton appears to have had a Natural ...
Page xxi
... should Dawb with Untemper'd Mortar ? he Writes in all his Controverfial Works with the Same Ardour his Soul Felt , let Men call it Virulence , or Zeal as they happen to be Inclin'd . but his Fervour was not Unreftrainable When ' twas ...
... should Dawb with Untemper'd Mortar ? he Writes in all his Controverfial Works with the Same Ardour his Soul Felt , let Men call it Virulence , or Zeal as they happen to be Inclin'd . but his Fervour was not Unreftrainable When ' twas ...
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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.