The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... kings ; Hail her great Arthur , who , from mortals far , Now pants for his return , and burns for war ; Record the hero - knights , who sheathed the sword , Link'd in strong union round the mighty board , And break , ( if daring genius ...
... kings ; Hail her great Arthur , who , from mortals far , Now pants for his return , and burns for war ; Record the hero - knights , who sheathed the sword , Link'd in strong union round the mighty board , And break , ( if daring genius ...
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... king or knight before the conquest might be chosen , in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero . And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels ...
... king or knight before the conquest might be chosen , in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero . And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels ...
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... King's return from his second expedition against Scotland , when his forces had been obliged by Leslie to retreat . The crisis was striking , and the mind of Milton , checked as he had been by his patriotism in his pursuit of an ...
... King's return from his second expedition against Scotland , when his forces had been obliged by Leslie to retreat . The crisis was striking , and the mind of Milton , checked as he had been by his patriotism in his pursuit of an ...
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... king of Syracuse , gained a memorable victory over the Carthaginians at the time of the invasion of Greece by Xerxes . I am at a loss to discover why Mr. Warton should call the Himera " the famous bucolic river of Theocritus . " Not one ...
... king of Syracuse , gained a memorable victory over the Carthaginians at the time of the invasion of Greece by Xerxes . I am at a loss to discover why Mr. Warton should call the Himera " the famous bucolic river of Theocritus . " Not one ...
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... king , called Pandrasus . Rutupium is Richborough on the coast of Kent . Armorica ( or Bretagne ) in France was conquered and occupied by the Britons , at the time , as it is generally supposed , that they were pressed by the Saxons ...
... king , called Pandrasus . Rutupium is Richborough on the coast of Kent . Armorica ( or Bretagne ) in France was conquered and occupied by the Britons , at the time , as it is generally supposed , that they were pressed by the Saxons ...
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Page 70 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 159 - 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 240 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 341 - Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the 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.
Page 210 - 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...
Page 336 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 38 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 143 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 109 - 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 amorist 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 428 - The punishment of dissolute days : in fine, Just or unjust, alike seem miserable, For oft alike both come to evil end.