An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise Lost |
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... former . For though I did not cry with Almanzor— I cannot stay to ask which cause is best , Yet this is so to me because opprest ; still my mind may have been secretly swayed by the royal misfortunes , and Charles perhaps appears to ...
... former . For though I did not cry with Almanzor— I cannot stay to ask which cause is best , Yet this is so to me because opprest ; still my mind may have been secretly swayed by the royal misfortunes , and Charles perhaps appears to ...
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... former days - families bearing the same names with its towns , villages , and hamlets . This however gives no indication of their original social posi- tion . It only shows that at one time they dwelt in or came from that place , and ...
... former days - families bearing the same names with its towns , villages , and hamlets . This however gives no indication of their original social posi- tion . It only shows that at one time they dwelt in or came from that place , and ...
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... former very shortly after her birth ; of Anne and Christopher we shall treat when we come to our poet's family . says Phillips , and I take it by our author himself , that his father composed an Il Domine of forty parts , for which he ...
... former very shortly after her birth ; of Anne and Christopher we shall treat when we come to our poet's family . says Phillips , and I take it by our author himself , that his father composed an Il Domine of forty parts , for which he ...
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... former mistress of the world he made another stay of two months , engaged , it would appear , chiefly in studying the ruins and the antiquities . In all probability he had . brought with him letters of introduction from Florence . Among ...
... former mistress of the world he made another stay of two months , engaged , it would appear , chiefly in studying the ruins and the antiquities . In all probability he had . brought with him letters of introduction from Florence . Among ...
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... former route through France , reached his na- tive land in safety some time in the month of August , 1639 , after an absence of fifteen months . It does not seem to have occurred to any of Milton's biographers , to endeavour to assign ...
... former route through France , reached his na- tive land in safety some time in the month of August , 1639 , after an absence of fifteen months . It does not seem to have occurred to any of Milton's biographers , to endeavour to assign ...
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Page 377 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Page 373 - I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian. There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old a prisoner to the Inquisition , for thinking in astronomy otherwise than...
Page 351 - ... 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 459 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 372 - We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force ; God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object ever almost in his eyes ; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
Page 355 - 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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...
Page 353 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 364 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 468 - And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
Page 376 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.