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... to literature and its profes , sors has been formed at so lale a period : but it
gratifies me to be yet indulged with this opportunity of acknowledging my
obligations to him , and of evincing my feeling of worth by professing my respect
for him .
... to literature and its profes , sors has been formed at so lale a period : but it
gratifies me to be yet indulged with this opportunity of acknowledging my
obligations to him , and of evincing my feeling of worth by professing my respect
for him .
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withdrawn by my prudence, they would perhaps pardon the errors which I have
committed, for those which, under the impulse of temptation and with something
of violence to my feelings, I have virtuously abstained from committing. Having ...
withdrawn by my prudence, they would perhaps pardon the errors which I have
committed, for those which, under the impulse of temptation and with something
of violence to my feelings, I have virtuously abstained from committing. Having ...
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The suggestions of feeling in this instance pressed me more strongly than those
of prudence; and, superior as I was conscious of being with the weapons of truth,
I wished him to “be alive again, “To dare me to the desert with his sword.
The suggestions of feeling in this instance pressed me more strongly than those
of prudence; and, superior as I was conscious of being with the weapons of truth,
I wished him to “be alive again, “To dare me to the desert with his sword.
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If they should , therefore , unhappily be erroneous , my misfortune , as I fear , is
hopelessly irremediable , for they are now so vitally blended with my thought and
my feelings , that with them they must exist or must perish . The nature of these ...
If they should , therefore , unhappily be erroneous , my misfortune , as I fear , is
hopelessly irremediable , for they are now so vitally blended with my thought and
my feelings , that with them they must exist or must perish . The nature of these ...
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... compelled to make to religious principle would necessarily attach it the more
closely to his heart; and he would naturally be solicitous to stamp upon the tender
bosom of his son that conviction and feeling of duty which were impressed E. IFE
...
... compelled to make to religious principle would necessarily attach it the more
closely to his heart; and he would naturally be solicitous to stamp upon the tender
bosom of his son that conviction and feeling of duty which were impressed E. IFE
...
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able asserted called cause certainly character Charles church circumstance common composition conduct consequence critic death discovered doubt edition effect England English equal evidence expression fact father favour feeling give hand honour human immediately instance interest Italy King language late Latin learned less letter lines live Lost means ment merit mihi Milton mind Muse nature never notice object observed occasion offered opinion Paradise Parliament party passage passed perhaps period person poem poet poetic possessed praise present probably production published question quod reader reason received reference regard remark respect says seems short soon speak spirit strong taste thing thou thought tion translation truth verse whole writer written
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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?
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Life of John Milton |
| Autor | Charles Symmons |
| Edición | 2 |
| Editor | Nichols and Son, 1810 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 24 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 646 páginas |
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