The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volumen4C. and J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; J. and W.T. Clarke; Longman and Company ... [and 17 others], 1826 |
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... given it absolutely no place at all among the Works of its Author . " If I might venture to place Milton's Works , according to their degrees of poetick excellence , " says Dr. Joseph Warton , " it should be perhaps in the following ...
... given it absolutely no place at all among the Works of its Author . " If I might venture to place Milton's Works , according to their degrees of poetick excellence , " says Dr. Joseph Warton , " it should be perhaps in the following ...
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... given an extent and variety to his subject . It might perhaps be wished , that all which he has put into the mouth of the Virgin , respecting the early life of her Son , had been confined solely to this place , instead of a part being ...
... given an extent and variety to his subject . It might perhaps be wished , that all which he has put into the mouth of the Virgin , respecting the early life of her Son , had been confined solely to this place , instead of a part being ...
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... glory , and our Lord's majestically plain confutation of his arguments in the clear explanation given of the true ground on which glory and honour are due to the great Creator of all things , and required by him PARADISE REGAINED . vii.
... glory , and our Lord's majestically plain confutation of his arguments in the clear explanation given of the true ground on which glory and honour are due to the great Creator of all things , and required by him PARADISE REGAINED . vii.
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... given , that we are enabled to ascertain the exact part of Mount Taurus , which the poet had in his mind . The geogra- phical scene , from ver . 268 to 292 , is delineated with a precision that brings each place immediately before our ...
... given , that we are enabled to ascertain the exact part of Mount Taurus , which the poet had in his mind . The geogra- phical scene , from ver . 268 to 292 , is delineated with a precision that brings each place immediately before our ...
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... given of the splendour and magnificence of Rome , to arraign the superlatively extravagant luxury of the Romans , ( possibly not without a glance at the manners of our Court at that time , ) and briefly to sum up those vices and ...
... given of the splendour and magnificence of Rome , to arraign the superlatively extravagant luxury of the Romans , ( possibly not without a glance at the manners of our Court at that time , ) and briefly to sum up those vices and ...
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Página 52 - And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?
Página 473 - He tugged, he shook, till down they came, and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder, Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Página 157 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Página 481 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 483 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent: His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
Página 270 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Página 11 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 268 - 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...
Página 62 - God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will, And sends his spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.
Página 141 - Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king — Which every wise and virtuous man attains ; And who attains not ill aspires to rule Cities of men, or headstrong multitudes, 470 Subject himself to anarchy within, Or lawless passions in him, which he serves.