The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 páginas |
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... conduct through life . Satisfied however as I ought to be with the general result of public criticism , I have been struck , and at the same time pleased , as I will confess , with the variety and , in some instances , the contradiction ...
... conduct through life . Satisfied however as I ought to be with the general result of public criticism , I have been struck , and at the same time pleased , as I will confess , with the variety and , in some instances , the contradiction ...
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... conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual power of Dr. John- son with his numerous virtues , and those pre- judices which united him with a potent fac- tion in the state , conciliated during his ...
... conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual power of Dr. John- son with his numerous virtues , and those pre- judices which united him with a potent fac- tion in the state , conciliated during his ...
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... conduct to the bar of Truth , and firmly to pronounce her sentence of acquittal or condemnation . On the dead indeed only can the sentence of truth , at all times and without the plead- ing of any opposing duty , be pronounced . Have I ...
... conduct to the bar of Truth , and firmly to pronounce her sentence of acquittal or condemnation . On the dead indeed only can the sentence of truth , at all times and without the plead- ing of any opposing duty , be pronounced . Have I ...
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... him , with my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not erased a с syllable respecting him , and have felt more inclined to PREFACE . 17.
... him , with my conviction of the atrocity of his conduct , to one of the most perfect characters which is to be found in the page of biography , I have not erased a с syllable respecting him , and have felt more inclined to PREFACE . 17.
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... conduct : for on occasions which he has improved to display his candour and his taste , by lavishing extra- vagant commendations on some very subor- dinate versions of the " Mansus Mansus " and the " Damon , " he has carefully buried ...
... conduct : for on occasions which he has improved to display his candour and his taste , by lavishing extra- vagant commendations on some very subor- dinate versions of the " Mansus Mansus " and the " Damon , " he has carefully buried ...
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admirable agni Andrew Marvell asserted atque bishop bosom cause censure Charles CHARLES SYMMONS church Church of England composition Comus consequence critic Cromwell Damon death Defence Deodati discovered divine domino jam domum impasti edition England English enim etiam fame fancy father favour genius hæc hand hath honour immediately ipse Isaac Vossius jam non vacat King Latin Lauder learned letter liberty literary Long Parliament Lycidas malè ment merit mihi Milton mind Morus Muse neque nihil nunc object occasion opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost Parliament passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry possessed praise prelate present quæ quam quid quis quod quoque racter reader regard remark respect Salmasius Samson Agonistes says seems sibi Smectymnuus sonnet speak spirit tamen taste thing thou tibi tion translation truth verse virtue Warton writer written
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Página 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...
Página 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...