John Milton, His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., EtcD. Appleton & Company, 1833 - 300 páginas |
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Página iii
... says : - " There is much reason for regretting , that the prose works of MILTON , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate , passages of such redeeming beauty occur , should be in the hands of so few readers ...
... says : - " There is much reason for regretting , that the prose works of MILTON , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate , passages of such redeeming beauty occur , should be in the hands of so few readers ...
Página iv
... says in the same preface : " But in happier times , when it is less difficult to make allowance for the effervescence caused by the heat of conflicting politics , and when the judgment is no longer influenced by the animosities of party ...
... says in the same preface : " But in happier times , when it is less difficult to make allowance for the effervescence caused by the heat of conflicting politics , and when the judgment is no longer influenced by the animosities of party ...
Página vii
... says : " Truth , indeed , came once into the world with her Divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look upon ; but when he ascended , and his apostles after him were laid asleep then strait arose a wicked race of ...
... says : " Truth , indeed , came once into the world with her Divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look upon ; but when he ascended , and his apostles after him were laid asleep then strait arose a wicked race of ...
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... says Hayley , " on the Life and Genius of Johnson , he wrote the following most deliberate censure : ' Let all that is said against MILTON in the conclusion of this book pass undisputed , and Johnson's is a most malignant life of MILTON ...
... says Hayley , " on the Life and Genius of Johnson , he wrote the following most deliberate censure : ' Let all that is said against MILTON in the conclusion of this book pass undisputed , and Johnson's is a most malignant life of MILTON ...
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... says : " That MIL- TON's writings show him to have been a man from his childhood ; and that these poems are exceedingly above the ordinary capacity of that age . " He spent seven years at Cambridge , " where he lived with great ...
... says : " That MIL- TON's writings show him to have been a man from his childhood ; and that these poems are exceedingly above the ordinary capacity of that age . " He spent seven years at Cambridge , " where he lived with great ...
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Página 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Página 225 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 223 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Página 131 - 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.
Página 226 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 224 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 268 - It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Página 66 - 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 would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página vii - 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 229 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...