The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 Seiten |
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... tion ; or with those men who in later times , aban- doning their party and its spirit , have struggled to retain its honorable appellation , -I glory as I profess myself to be a wHIG ; to be of the school of SOMERS and of LOCKE ; to ...
... tion ; or with those men who in later times , aban- doning their party and its spirit , have struggled to retain its honorable appellation , -I glory as I profess myself to be a wHIG ; to be of the school of SOMERS and of LOCKE ; to ...
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... tion of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labors ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in possession of their reward : but it is discouraging to the weakness of the living , and consequently ...
... tion of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labors ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in possession of their reward : but it is discouraging to the weakness of the living , and consequently ...
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... tion are , " Mulctetur , & c . si adultus ; alioquin virgâ corrigatur ; " and whe- ther Milton , who was in his seventeenth year when he entered at the Uni- versity , could be regarded on any construction of this statute as liable to ...
... tion are , " Mulctetur , & c . si adultus ; alioquin virgâ corrigatur ; " and whe- ther Milton , who was in his seventeenth year when he entered at the Uni- versity , could be regarded on any construction of this statute as liable to ...
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... tion towards me . Which , being likewise propense to all such as were for their studious and civil life worthy of esteem , I could not wrong their judgments and upright intentions so much as to think I had that regard from them for ...
... tion towards me . Which , being likewise propense to all such as were for their studious and civil life worthy of esteem , I could not wrong their judgments and upright intentions so much as to think I had that regard from them for ...
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... tion . " These reasonings , together with a certain niceness of nature , an honest haughtiness and self - esteem either of what I was or what I might be ( which let envy call pride ) , and lastly , a becoming modesty , all uniting the ...
... tion . " These reasonings , together with a certain niceness of nature , an honest haughtiness and self - esteem either of what I was or what I might be ( which let envy call pride ) , and lastly , a becoming modesty , all uniting the ...
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admirable agni Andrew Marvell ANTISTROPHE asserted atque Bishop bosom Brownists cause censure Charles CHARLES SYMMONS church composition Comus consequence Cromwell Damon death Defense Deodati discovered divine domino jam domum impasti edition effect England English enim etiam fame fancy father favor genius hæc hand hath honor Il Penseroso immediately instance ipse Isaac Vossius Italy jam non vacat King Latin learned letter liberty Long Parliament Lycidas malè ment merit mihi Milton mind Morus Muse neque nihil nunc object occasion opinion panegyric Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry possessed praise present quæ quam quid quis quod quoque racter reader regard remark respect Salmasius says seems sibi Smectymnuus solicitous sonnet speak spirit talents taste testimony things thou tibi tion translation truth verse virtue Warton writer
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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...