John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., Etc |
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... blind his understanding as to use his pen for distorting the features of a character which he was incapable of delineating . The writer would not have considered these remarks to have been required so long after the death of the ...
... blind his understanding as to use his pen for distorting the features of a character which he was incapable of delineating . The writer would not have considered these remarks to have been required so long after the death of the ...
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... blind chance has drawn down to this present , in her huge drag - net , whether fish or sea - weed , shells or shrubs , unpicked , unchosen - these are the fathers . " And so he chides the good bishop USHER , " for divulging useless ...
... blind chance has drawn down to this present , in her huge drag - net , whether fish or sea - weed , shells or shrubs , unpicked , unchosen - these are the fathers . " And so he chides the good bishop USHER , " for divulging useless ...
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... blind reve- rence , whose books in bigness and number are endless and immeasurable ; I cannot think that either God or nature , either divine or human wisdom , did mean they should ever be a rule or reliance to us , in the decision of ...
... blind reve- rence , whose books in bigness and number are endless and immeasurable ; I cannot think that either God or nature , either divine or human wisdom , did mean they should ever be a rule or reliance to us , in the decision of ...
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... blind and wretched condition of hope to merit heaven , for the building of churches , cloysters , and convents ; the black revenues of purgatory , the price of abused and mur- dered souls , the damned simony . of Trentals , and the hire ...
... blind and wretched condition of hope to merit heaven , for the building of churches , cloysters , and convents ; the black revenues of purgatory , the price of abused and mur- dered souls , the damned simony . of Trentals , and the hire ...
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... blind- ness we are born in , so it happens , for the most part , that Custom still is silently received for the best instructor . You it concerns chiefly , worthies in Parliament , on whom , as on our deliverers , all our grievances and ...
... blind- ness we are born in , so it happens , for the most part , that Custom still is silently received for the best instructor . You it concerns chiefly , worthies in Parliament , on whom , as on our deliverers , all our grievances and ...
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Page 84 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 283 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 283 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 164 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was veiled ; yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear as in no face with more delight. But, oh ! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 68 - 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 mid-day beam...
Page 147 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 280 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 334 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 284 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 286 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony...