The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 Seiten |
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... expressing a sim- ple perhaps , but certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am probably to be numbered with the most fallible of ...
... expressing a sim- ple perhaps , but certainly a sincere wish for his relief from what may justly be considered as the severest of human evils . I belong to a fallible species , and am probably to be numbered with the most fallible of ...
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... expressions in one of his own poems , that the slander , though completely overthrown at the time of its first production , was not alto- gether unsupported by truth . The lines sup- posed to contain the proof in question , are the ...
... expressions in one of his own poems , that the slander , though completely overthrown at the time of its first production , was not alto- gether unsupported by truth . The lines sup- posed to contain the proof in question , are the ...
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... expression of the last cited verses , " Cæteraque , " & c . " and other things , " I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggesting only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of concealing the weakness of his inference , has intimated ...
... expression of the last cited verses , " Cæteraque , " & c . " and other things , " I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggesting only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of concealing the weakness of his inference , has intimated ...
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... expression at the early age of fifteen . When we read in this small work of " the golden - tressed sun , " of the moon shining among " her spangled sisters of the night ; " of the Almighty smiting the first - born of Egypt with " his ...
... expression at the early age of fifteen . When we read in this small work of " the golden - tressed sun , " of the moon shining among " her spangled sisters of the night ; " of the Almighty smiting the first - born of Egypt with " his ...
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... beau- ties , unneighboured by a thought , a line , or almost an expression , which we can be desirous of chang- 34 Our author's niece , a daughter of his sister , Mrs. Philips . -- ing . I shall cite the fifth stanza for LIFE OF MILTON .
... beau- ties , unneighboured by a thought , a line , or almost an expression , which we can be desirous of chang- 34 Our author's niece , a daughter of his sister , Mrs. Philips . -- ing . I shall cite the fifth stanza for LIFE OF MILTON .
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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...