Original Papers Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Milton

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William Douglas Hamilton
Camden Society, 1859 - Literary Criticism - 139 pages

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Page 73 - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 78 - Perticuler delivered in, under his hand, by which he doth submit t, to such fine, &c. and by which it doth appeare: That he is seized in fee to him and his heirs in possession of and in the...
Page 60 - And whereas the said John Milton and John Goodwin are both fled, or so obscure themselves, that no endeavours used for their apprehension can take effect, whereby they might be brought to legal tryal, and deservedly receive condign punishment for their treasons and offences.
Page 38 - Milton printed that, if his honour pleases, he shall command my copies and all my other papers to the fire. And, though I happened to be acquainted with Milton in his lifetime (which out of mere love to learning I procured, and no other concerns ever passed betwixt us but a great desire and ambition of some of his learning), I am, and ever was, so far from being in the least tainted with any of his principles that I may boldly say none has a greater honour and loyalty for his Majesty, more veneration...
Page 52 - ... to pay him rent : He therefore now desires he may have all convenient dispatch, and that the Order of Sequestring may be recalled, and that the composition may be moderated as much as may bee, in regard that Mrs. Powell the Widow of the said Mr. Richard Powell hath her cause depending before the Commissioners in the Painted Chamber for breach of Articles, who have adjudg'd her satisfaction to be made for the great damage don her by seizing and selling the personall estate divers days after the...
Page 58 - A PROCLAMATION For calling in, and suppressing of two Books written by John Milton; the one Intituled, Johannis Miltoni Angli •pro Po-pulo Anglicano Defensio, contra Claudii Anonymi alias Salmasii, Defensionem Regiam; and the other in answer to a Book Intituled, The Pourtraicture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitude and Sufferings. And also a third Book Intituled, The Obstructors of Justice, written by John Goodwin.
Page 51 - Forest-Hill, in the same county, by reason of an extent which he hath upon the said lands by a statute, did put in his Petition about the middle of August last, which was referred accordingly ; but having had important business ever since, by order of the...
Page 23 - I shall need any assistance in the performance of my place (though for my part I find no encumbrances of that which belongs to me, except it be in point of attendance at Conferences with Ambassadors, which I must confess in my condition I am not fit for), it would be hard for them to find a man soe fit every way for that purpose as this gentleman ; one who, I believe, in a short time, would be able to do them as much service as Mr.
Page 78 - Fairfax's certificate of the 20 of June, 1646, doth appeare. He hath taken the Nationall Covenant before William Barton, minister of John Zacharies, the 4th of December, 1646, and the Negative Oath heere the same daye. He compounds upon a Perticuler delivered in, under his hand, by which he doth submit t, to such fine, &c.

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