The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 Seiten |
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... , conscious of speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satisfaction of speaking safely . Without acknowledging any thing in common , but a name , with that malignant 6 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . and selfish faction THE FIRST EDITION . 5.
... , conscious of speaking honestly , I can enjoy the satisfaction of speaking safely . Without acknowledging any thing in common , but a name , with that malignant 6 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION . and selfish faction THE FIRST EDITION . 5.
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... common child9 . " My father destined me ( our author says ) , when I was yet a little boy , to the study of ele- gant literature ; and , so eagerly did I seise on it that , from my twelfth year , I seldom quitted my studies for my bed ...
... common child9 . " My father destined me ( our author says ) , when I was yet a little boy , to the study of ele- gant literature ; and , so eagerly did I seise on it that , from my twelfth year , I seldom quitted my studies for my bed ...
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... common sway ; To you commends his lyre , —to me his lay : Whole in each bosom makes his just abode , With child and sire the same , though varied God.— This must have been most acceptable ; and yet , perhaps , more gratifying to the ...
... common sway ; To you commends his lyre , —to me his lay : Whole in each bosom makes his just abode , With child and sire the same , though varied God.— This must have been most acceptable ; and yet , perhaps , more gratifying to the ...
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... common mode of discipline in the subordinate schools cannot be a cause of wonder or of reasonable censure . Dr. Johnson's concern and shame therefore , on the occasion of Milton's supposed punishment , might on every account very ...
... common mode of discipline in the subordinate schools cannot be a cause of wonder or of reasonable censure . Dr. Johnson's concern and shame therefore , on the occasion of Milton's supposed punishment , might on every account very ...
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... common acquisitions and powers , and undoubt- edly to draw on him the gaze and admiration of all who knew and were capable of appreciating his possessions , 32❝Illic ( Cantabrigiâ ) disciplinis atque artibus tradi solitis septennium ...
... common acquisitions and powers , and undoubt- edly to draw on him the gaze and admiration of all who knew and were capable of appreciating his possessions , 32❝Illic ( Cantabrigiâ ) disciplinis atque artibus tradi solitis septennium ...
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Seite 386 - 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.
Seite 296 - 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...
Seite 102 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Seite 221 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Seite 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Seite 184 - 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...
Seite 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Seite 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Seite 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Seite 101 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...