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... writer . Cowper has commended with kindred sympathy the vividness of the descriptions , the sweetness of the numbers , and the fine spirit of antiquity that animates the whole . Perhaps the objection so violently urged by Johnson ...
... writer . Cowper has commended with kindred sympathy the vividness of the descriptions , the sweetness of the numbers , and the fine spirit of antiquity that animates the whole . Perhaps the objection so violently urged by Johnson ...
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... writer of one was the noblest poet of his country , and that the other , in his domestic habits , was amiable and unassuming , gentle and affectionate ! Milton's suc- cess , as might be anticipated for the advocate of the popular and ...
... writer of one was the noblest poet of his country , and that the other , in his domestic habits , was amiable and unassuming , gentle and affectionate ! Milton's suc- cess , as might be anticipated for the advocate of the popular and ...
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... writer , together with the fallen condition of the Republican party * . Of the merits and genius of the drama , different opinions have been advanced . New- ton looked upon it as equalling , if not excelling , the most perfect tragedies ...
... writer , together with the fallen condition of the Republican party * . Of the merits and genius of the drama , different opinions have been advanced . New- ton looked upon it as equalling , if not excelling , the most perfect tragedies ...
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... to throw off his allegiance to that perverse yet powerful writer . Dryden he thought a good rhymer , but no poet . His genius was not of an * Richardson . order to excite the sympathy of Milton , and none JOHN MILTON . 57.
... to throw off his allegiance to that perverse yet powerful writer . Dryden he thought a good rhymer , but no poet . His genius was not of an * Richardson . order to excite the sympathy of Milton , and none JOHN MILTON . 57.
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... from theological writers , which he had directed * I quote from the analysis in Mitford's excellent Life of Milton , p . 111 , and Dr. Sumner's Preface , p . 34 . to be copied by his nephews so early as 1640 JOHN MILTON . 63.
... from theological writers , which he had directed * I quote from the analysis in Mitford's excellent Life of Milton , p . 111 , and Dr. Sumner's Preface , p . 34 . to be copied by his nephews so early as 1640 JOHN MILTON . 63.
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Page 234 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree ; And seem by Thy sweet bounty made For those who follow Thee.
Page 133 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 132 - GIVE me the wings of faith, to rise Within the vail, and see The saints above — how great their joys, How bright their glories be ! 2 Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears ; They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.
Page 108 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Page 22 - 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 20 - 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 ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page 240 - E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die.
Page 234 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God...
Page 250 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropped upon his Bible was sincere : Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was, a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 310 - No noise is here, or none that hinders thought. The redbreast warbles still, but is content With slender notes, and more than half...