An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise LostChapman and Hall, 1855 - 484 oldal |
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... regard for truth and free inquiry which is so becoming and so laudable in a Christian pre- late , has permitted his valuable translation of that work to be published in a form which has given it a far wider circulation than this volume ...
... regard for truth and free inquiry which is so becoming and so laudable in a Christian pre- late , has permitted his valuable translation of that work to be published in a form which has given it a far wider circulation than this volume ...
x. oldal
... the subject . As in writing this volume I have been actuated solely by a regard for truth and reverence for the fame of Milton - years and their attendant evils having nearly quenched my love of fame - and as I live X PREFACE .
... the subject . As in writing this volume I have been actuated solely by a regard for truth and reverence for the fame of Milton - years and their attendant evils having nearly quenched my love of fame - and as I live X PREFACE .
x. oldal
... writing this volume I have been actuated solely by a regard for truth and reverence for the fame of Milton–years and their attendant evils having nearly quenched my love of fame—and as I live in seclusion, Y PREFACE.
... writing this volume I have been actuated solely by a regard for truth and reverence for the fame of Milton–years and their attendant evils having nearly quenched my love of fame—and as I live in seclusion, Y PREFACE.
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... regard them as the respective capitals of two belligerent states , between which all civil intercourse had ceased . But not so . We find Milton , a strenuous Parliamentarian , setting out from London as if on a mere country excursion ...
... regard them as the respective capitals of two belligerent states , between which all civil intercourse had ceased . But not so . We find Milton , a strenuous Parliamentarian , setting out from London as if on a mere country excursion ...
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... regard- ing his union with Miss Powell as terminated by her ob- stinate desertion of him , he began to look out for some more suitable person with whom he might renew the nuptial tic . The lady on whom he fixed his choice , and to whom ...
... regard- ing his union with Miss Powell as terminated by her ob- stinate desertion of him , he began to look out for some more suitable person with whom he might renew the nuptial tic . The lady on whom he fixed his choice , and to whom ...
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367. oldal - 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 would...
345. oldal - 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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...
343. oldal - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
295. oldal - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
343. oldal - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue through all the instances of example with such delight, to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed...
116. oldal - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd...
351. oldal - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...
226. oldal - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity, as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages...
342. oldal - Job a brief, model : or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed, which in them that know art, and use judgement, is no transgression, but an enriching of art : and lastly, what king or knight, before the conquest, might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
460. oldal - And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.