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Page xv
... themselves his Mask and Lycidas are perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . of the First of Thefe , Sir Henry Wootton in his Letter to Milton , gives a great Encomium , and Toland fays , " that for the peculiar Difpofition of ...
... themselves his Mask and Lycidas are perhaps Superior to all in their Several Kinds . of the First of Thefe , Sir Henry Wootton in his Letter to Milton , gives a great Encomium , and Toland fays , " that for the peculiar Difpofition of ...
Page xxxi
... Themselves More than to their Governors , Otherwife than as Rejoycing in Their Joy . ' tis however very Natural for an Old Man , Enur'd to Strict Vertue , and One whofe Paf- fions are Weakened with Continual Affaults and Repulfes , to ...
... Themselves More than to their Governors , Otherwife than as Rejoycing in Their Joy . ' tis however very Natural for an Old Man , Enur'd to Strict Vertue , and One whofe Paf- fions are Weakened with Continual Affaults and Repulfes , to ...
Page xxxv
... Themselves , as well as to Thofe who in Reality Love them Beft ; and That , not Only for the Prefent , but Throughout every Stage of their Future Life . but Admitting it was a Hardship ; let the Fa- ther be taken into the Account , let ...
... Themselves , as well as to Thofe who in Reality Love them Beft ; and That , not Only for the Prefent , but Throughout every Stage of their Future Life . but Admitting it was a Hardship ; let the Fa- ther be taken into the Account , let ...
Page xxxvii
... Themselves with Falfities and Unjuft Re- proaches , which the Injur'd Father rather Chooses to Bear , than to Wipe them Off by Irrecoverably Lofing , or Ruining the Rebel ; and Then , that , a Father's Love is Another Sort of a Feeling ...
... Themselves with Falfities and Unjuft Re- proaches , which the Injur'd Father rather Chooses to Bear , than to Wipe them Off by Irrecoverably Lofing , or Ruining the Rebel ; and Then , that , a Father's Love is Another Sort of a Feeling ...
Page xxxviii
... Themselves . but Milton ( So every Wife and Good Man ) as thofe Elect Angels , Contented with their Fame in Heav'n , Sought not the Praife of Men : Par . Loft . VI . 374 . and what Delight to be by Such Extoll'd , to Live upon their ...
... Themselves . but Milton ( So every Wife and Good Man ) as thofe Elect Angels , Contented with their Fame in Heav'n , Sought not the Praife of Men : Par . Loft . VI . 374 . and what Delight to be by Such Extoll'd , to Live upon their ...
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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.