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... so many of little and mean character concur to excite in the same moment our
respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a
writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to complain .
... so many of little and mean character concur to excite in the same moment our
respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a
writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to complain .
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Urged as I have been by some , whom I respect and love , to soften what I have
said against him , with my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the
most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not
...
Urged as I have been by some , whom I respect and love , to soften what I have
said against him , with my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the
most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not
...
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With the diffidence , proper to my conscious mediocrity of talents , but with the
alacrity , inspired by the wish of illustrating a great and an injured character , I
undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work .
With the diffidence , proper to my conscious mediocrity of talents , but with the
alacrity , inspired by the wish of illustrating a great and an injured character , I
undertook , and soon sketched the rough draught of a large portion of the work .
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Unfortunately however , the character which the great Milton sustained , on the
political theatre of his calamitous times , has exposed him to the malignity of party
; ạnd this undying and sleeplesso pest has been . “ Nec dulci declinat lumina ...
Unfortunately however , the character which the great Milton sustained , on the
political theatre of his calamitous times , has exposed him to the malignity of party
; ạnd this undying and sleeplesso pest has been . “ Nec dulci declinat lumina ...
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This remark is immediately to our present purpose: for this generation has
witnessed an attempt on the character of our great writer, which would have done
credit to the virulence of his own age. We have seen a new Salmasius,
unimpelled by ...
This remark is immediately to our present purpose: for this generation has
witnessed an attempt on the character of our great writer, which would have done
credit to the virulence of his own age. We have seen a new Salmasius,
unimpelled by ...
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Página 161 - 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 hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 212 - 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...
Página 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Página 293 - 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.
Página 406 - 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. Her face was...
Página 519 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 196 - 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...
Página 264 - 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...
Página 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Página 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?