The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; J. and W.T. Clarke; Longman and Company ... [and 17 others], 1826 |
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... college as in a state . When reprimanded and admonished , the pride of his tem- per , impatient of any sort of reproof , naturally broke forth into expressions of contumely and contempt against his governour . Hence he was punished . He ...
... college as in a state . When reprimanded and admonished , the pride of his tem- per , impatient of any sort of reproof , naturally broke forth into expressions of contumely and contempt against his governour . Hence he was punished . He ...
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... college - hall . Ath . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 560. See also Life of Bathurst , p . 202. I learn from some manuscript papers of Aubrey the antiquary , who was a student of Trinity college Oxford , four years from 1642 , that at Oxford ...
... college - hall . Ath . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 560. See also Life of Bathurst , p . 202. I learn from some manuscript papers of Aubrey the antiquary , who was a student of Trinity college Oxford , four years from 1642 , that at Oxford ...
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... college lar dudum vetitus , and his absence from the university an exilium . But it was no unpleas- ing or involuntary banishment . He hated the place . He was not only offended at the college - discipline , but had even conceived a ...
... college lar dudum vetitus , and his absence from the university an exilium . But it was no unpleas- ing or involuntary banishment . He hated the place . He was not only offended at the college - discipline , but had even conceived a ...
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... college , transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell , who dyed parson of Lutterworth . ' MS . Mus . Ashm . ut supr . This information , which stands detached from the body of Aubrey's narrative , seems to have been communicated to ...
... college , transferred to the tuition of one Mr. Tovell , who dyed parson of Lutterworth . ' MS . Mus . Ashm . ut supr . This information , which stands detached from the body of Aubrey's narrative , seems to have been communicated to ...
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... College . And if the same exemption was granted to boys of sixteen at Cambridge , as to those of the same age at Oxford , the flagellation of Milton be- comes still less entitled to credit . One of the statutes of Christ's College ...
... College . And if the same exemption was granted to boys of sixteen at Cambridge , as to those of the same age at Oxford , the flagellation of Milton be- comes still less entitled to credit . One of the statutes of Christ's College ...
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Page 234 - ... 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 190 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which, being brought, he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Page 52 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 245 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason ; and to servitude reduce Man, till then free. Therefore, since...
Page 373 - 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...
Page 53 - But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable.
Page 313 - 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...
Page 373 - 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...
Page 197 - I have borrowed will be so easily discerned from my mean productions, that I shall not need to point the reader to the places : and truly I should be sorry, for my own sake, that any one should take the pains to compare them together; the original being undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Page 226 - Firm concord holds ; men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That, day and night, for his destruction wait.