The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J. Mitford, Volume 31851 |
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... foule and fudden corruption , and then after many a tedious age , the long - deferr'd , but much more wonderfull and hap- py reformation of the Church in these latter dayes . Sad it is to thinke how that Doctrine of the Gospel , planted ...
... foule and fudden corruption , and then after many a tedious age , the long - deferr'd , but much more wonderfull and hap- py reformation of the Church in these latter dayes . Sad it is to thinke how that Doctrine of the Gospel , planted ...
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... foule play . What could be more impious then to debarre the Children of the King from their right to the Crowne ? To comply with the ambi- tious Ufurpation of a Traytor ; and to make void the laft Will of HENRY 8. to which the Breakers ...
... foule play . What could be more impious then to debarre the Children of the King from their right to the Crowne ? To comply with the ambi- tious Ufurpation of a Traytor ; and to make void the laft Will of HENRY 8. to which the Breakers ...
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... for fo oft as the foule would retire out of the head from over the steaming vapours of the lower parts to Divine Contemplation , with him shee found the pureft , and quieteft retreat , as being most Lib . 2 . 43 in England .
... for fo oft as the foule would retire out of the head from over the steaming vapours of the lower parts to Divine Contemplation , with him shee found the pureft , and quieteft retreat , as being most Lib . 2 . 43 in England .
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... foules of our Progenitors that wrefted their liberties out of the Norman gripe with their dearest blood and highest proweffe , for these many years have not ceas't in their Pulpits wrinching , and fpraining the text , to fet at nought ...
... foules of our Progenitors that wrefted their liberties out of the Norman gripe with their dearest blood and highest proweffe , for these many years have not ceas't in their Pulpits wrinching , and fpraining the text , to fet at nought ...
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... foule , and usefull to the Common - wealth : which if men were but as good to difcipline themselves , as fome are to tutor their Horses and Hawks , it could not be fo groffe in most housholds . If then it appear fo hard and fo little ...
... foule , and usefull to the Common - wealth : which if men were but as good to difcipline themselves , as fome are to tutor their Horses and Hawks , it could not be fo groffe in most housholds . If then it appear fo hard and fo little ...
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Page 149 - Memory and her siren 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 68 - Thou therefore that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, Parent of angels and men! next thee I implore, omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting love! and thou, the third subsistence of divine infinitude, illumining Spirit, the joy and solace of created things! one Tripersonal godhead! look upon this thy poor and almost spent and expiring church...
Page 71 - But they contrary that by the impairing and diminution of the true Faith, the distresses and servitude of their Country...
Page 144 - I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue...
Page 148 - 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 270 - I deplored; and above them all preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honour of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression.
Page 271 - Homer, to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit without that oath ought to be...
Page 104 - This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare...
Page 493 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 144 - ... 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.