The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 páginas |
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Página 67
... favour'd wall infolds . Not more the stars , whose beams illume thy night , ( Gay homagers of Luna's regent light , ) Than lovely maids , of faultless form and face , Who o'er thy crowded paths diffuse a golden grace . X Ovid . * Apol ...
... favour'd wall infolds . Not more the stars , whose beams illume thy night , ( Gay homagers of Luna's regent light , ) Than lovely maids , of faultless form and face , Who o'er thy crowded paths diffuse a golden grace . X Ovid . * Apol ...
Página 69
... favour and respect which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fel- lows of that college wherein I spent some years who at my parting , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is ...
... favour and respect which I found above any of my equals at the hands of those courteous and learned men , the fel- lows of that college wherein I spent some years who at my parting , after I had taken two degrees , as the manner is ...
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... favour of his superiors in the col- lege , and even be exposed to their censures without incurring the slightest loss of cha- racter , or sustaining the most trifling dimi nution of our esteem . In his " Second Defence , " published ...
... favour of his superiors in the col- lege , and even be exposed to their censures without incurring the slightest loss of cha- racter , or sustaining the most trifling dimi nution of our esteem . In his " Second Defence , " published ...
Página 96
... beaten by an arctic storm , reflects on the blue skies , the purple clusters and the fragrant orange groves of Italy . To this favoured period of our author's life are we indebted for some of the most exquisite 96 LIFE OF MILTON .
... beaten by an arctic storm , reflects on the blue skies , the purple clusters and the fragrant orange groves of Italy . To this favoured period of our author's life are we indebted for some of the most exquisite 96 LIFE OF MILTON .
Página 116
... favour . Do not then from your lordly eminence of medicine , hold out to me the threat of reclaiming , with rigid minuteness of calculation , your indefinitely - multiplied salutations , in the event ( which God avert ! ) of my proving ...
... favour . Do not then from your lordly eminence of medicine , hold out to me the threat of reclaiming , with rigid minuteness of calculation , your indefinitely - multiplied salutations , in the event ( which God avert ! ) of my proving ...
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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?