John Milton: the Patriot and PoetPartridge & Oakey, 1852 - 235 páginas |
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... Italy , the cities of Tasso and Pe- trach , of Dante and Columbus , of Macchiavelli and the De Medicis . He had studied in the world of books ; he had studied in the scenery of English life ; and now he wished to study in the wide world ...
... Italy , the cities of Tasso and Pe- trach , of Dante and Columbus , of Macchiavelli and the De Medicis . He had studied in the world of books ; he had studied in the scenery of English life ; and now he wished to study in the wide world ...
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Edwin Paxton Hood. motives for visiting Italy was to form a col- lection of Italian music . " His great object doubtless , was to observe other countries and men ; other manners and institutions . It af- fords proof of the high ...
Edwin Paxton Hood. motives for visiting Italy was to form a col- lection of Italian music . " His great object doubtless , was to observe other countries and men ; other manners and institutions . It af- fords proof of the high ...
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... Italy . Italy had not then resigned her empire over the minds of men ; the crozier of the Papacy , in- deed , was broken , but the monarchy of Genius held full sway and authority . To us , she has a name in story ; but at this period ...
... Italy . Italy had not then resigned her empire over the minds of men ; the crozier of the Papacy , in- deed , was broken , but the monarchy of Genius held full sway and authority . To us , she has a name in story ; but at this period ...
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... Italian cities had scarcely ceased to be the mistresses of the world.- Venice and Florence , from their marts and ex- changes , still were felt in the halls of Trade ; and as republics , ( although indeed the seats of the most exquisite ...
... Italian cities had scarcely ceased to be the mistresses of the world.- Venice and Florence , from their marts and ex- changes , still were felt in the halls of Trade ; and as republics , ( although indeed the seats of the most exquisite ...
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... the Grecian literature . But so prevalent were his patriotic attachments that , hearing in Italy of the com- mencement of the national quarrel , instead of proceeding forward to feast his fancy with the contemplation of THE TIMES . 55.
... the Grecian literature . But so prevalent were his patriotic attachments that , hearing in Italy of the com- mencement of the national quarrel , instead of proceeding forward to feast his fancy with the contemplation of THE TIMES . 55.
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John Milton: The Patriot and Poet; Illustrations of the Model Man Edwin Paxton Hood Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid ancient appears Areopagitica beauty behold bishops blind Buckinghamshire called CHAPTER character Charles cheerful church civil Cloth colours Comus conscience court dark death defence delights despotism ditto Divine Eikon Basilike England evil father fear Forest Hill genius gilt grandeur grove hath Heaven Hell honour Il Penseroso illustrates imagination John Milton Johnson king L'Allegro labours land learned Let the reader liberty light live Lycidas magnificent marriage mind moral musing Nature ness never night noble o'er Osiris Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace Penseroso perfect Petrarch poem poet poet's poetry political popery Powell prelates Prince religion Rome round Salmasius Satan says scenery seems Shakspeare Sir Egerton Brydges Sir William Jones solemn sonnet soul sound spirit sublime sweet taste terrible things Thomas Warton thou thought tion truth virtue walks winds wonderful writings written youth
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Página 76 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 102 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 143 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Página 29 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 130 - Rescued from death by force though pale and faint. Mine, as whom wash'd 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.
Página 99 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought...
Página 34 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 167 - A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the...
Página 23 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament ; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 168 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...