The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 Seiten |
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... seems to be increasing with the hour , every man , who can arrange a common sen- tence , is invited , with the helmet of Orcus on his head , to assume the office of a critic , and thus to pass sentence on the merits , if not on the ...
... seems to be increasing with the hour , every man , who can arrange a common sen- tence , is invited , with the helmet of Orcus on his head , to assume the office of a critic , and thus to pass sentence on the merits , if not on the ...
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... seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in ...
... seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in ...
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... seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his proficiency in the science of music ' that it entitled him to ho ... seems on this occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally ...
... seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his proficiency in the science of music ' that it entitled him to ho ... seems on this occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally ...
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... seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and closed in the coun- try a life of study and devotion . His only sister ...
... seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and closed in the coun- try a life of study and devotion . His only sister ...
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... seems to be inaccurate , as his pupil , in a letter dated from Cambridge in 1628 , promises him a visit at his country house in Suffolk , and compliments him on the independency of mind with which he maintained himself , like a Grecian ...
... seems to be inaccurate , as his pupil , in a letter dated from Cambridge in 1628 , promises him a visit at his country house in Suffolk , and compliments him on the independency of mind with which he maintained himself , like a Grecian ...
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Seite 252 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Seite 151 - 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.
Seite 389 - CVRIAC, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.
Seite 394 - 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.
Seite 151 - 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, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Seite 507 - 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 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Seite 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Seite 254 - 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Seite 149 - ... 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...