The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J. Mitford, Volume 31851 |
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... Never do we read that they made use of their Authority and high Place of acceffe , to bring the jarring Nobility to Chriftian peace , or to with- stand their disloyall Projects ; but if a Toleration for Mafe were to be beg'd of the King ...
... Never do we read that they made use of their Authority and high Place of acceffe , to bring the jarring Nobility to Chriftian peace , or to with- stand their disloyall Projects ; but if a Toleration for Mafe were to be beg'd of the King ...
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... ; thus he claimes Naples , Sicily , Eng- land , and what not ? To bee fhort , under fhew of his zeale against the errors of the Greeke Church , hee never ceast baiting , and goring the Succeffors of Lib . 2 . 39 in England .
... ; thus he claimes Naples , Sicily , Eng- land , and what not ? To bee fhort , under fhew of his zeale against the errors of the Greeke Church , hee never ceast baiting , and goring the Succeffors of Lib . 2 . 39 in England .
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... never fo bold No fuch Lordships to hem embrace But fmeren her Sheep , and keep her Fold . And fo forward . Whether the Bishops of Eng- land have deferv'd thus to bee fear'd by men fo wife as our Chaucer is esteem'd , and how agreeable ...
... never fo bold No fuch Lordships to hem embrace But fmeren her Sheep , and keep her Fold . And fo forward . Whether the Bishops of Eng- land have deferv'd thus to bee fear'd by men fo wife as our Chaucer is esteem'd , and how agreeable ...
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... never to be dif - united , be the Praise and the Heroick Song of all POSTERITY ; merit this , but feeke onely Vertue , not to extend your Limits ; for what needs ? to win a fading triumphant Lawrell out of the teares of wretched Men ...
... never to be dif - united , be the Praise and the Heroick Song of all POSTERITY ; merit this , but feeke onely Vertue , not to extend your Limits ; for what needs ? to win a fading triumphant Lawrell out of the teares of wretched Men ...
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... never fo long before ; they fear'd not the bug - bear danger , nor the Lyon in the way that the fluggish and timorous Politician thinks he fees ; no more did our Brethren of the Reformed Churches abroad ; they ventur'd ( God being their ...
... never fo long before ; they fear'd not the bug - bear danger , nor the Lyon in the way that the fluggish and timorous Politician thinks he fees ; no more did our Brethren of the Reformed Churches abroad ; they ventur'd ( God being their ...
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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.