An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise Lost |
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... knowledge . Coming into the world nearly two centuries later , it is neither a merit nor a boast that my scientific knowledge should be more extensive and more correct than his ; my task was to go back , and try to place myself in ...
... knowledge . Coming into the world nearly two centuries later , it is neither a merit nor a boast that my scientific knowledge should be more extensive and more correct than his ; my task was to go back , and try to place myself in ...
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... knowledge and literature at this time . He says himself : * " My father destined me while yet a child to the study of polite literature , which I em- braced with such avidity that from the twelfth year of my age I hardly ever retired to ...
... knowledge and literature at this time . He says himself : * " My father destined me while yet a child to the study of polite literature , which I em- braced with such avidity that from the twelfth year of my age I hardly ever retired to ...
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... knowledge , his muse did not slumber . It was , beyond doubt , at this period that he wrote his beautiful pendents , L'Al- legro and Il Penseroso . Horton also witnessed the birth of Arcades , Comus , † and Lycidas ; and in all ...
... knowledge , his muse did not slumber . It was , beyond doubt , at this period that he wrote his beautiful pendents , L'Al- legro and Il Penseroso . Horton also witnessed the birth of Arcades , Comus , † and Lycidas ; and in all ...
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... knowledge and the strength and variety of the mental powers dis- played by his new acquaintance , that he spoke of him in the highest terms to the Pope's eldest nephew Cardinal F. Barberini , who , as we learn elsewhere , was guardian ...
... knowledge and the strength and variety of the mental powers dis- played by his new acquaintance , that he spoke of him in the highest terms to the Pope's eldest nephew Cardinal F. Barberini , who , as we learn elsewhere , was guardian ...
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... knowledge and talents proceeded from " this wonder- working academy . " As this objection goes on the theory of man's being the mere creature of education , it is a sufficient reply to observe , that such is not the case , that doctrina ...
... knowledge and talents proceeded from " this wonder- working academy . " As this objection goes on the theory of man's being the mere creature of education , it is a sufficient reply to observe , that such is not the case , that doctrina ...
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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.