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... , as Boswell seeks to refute it , by bringing forward those passages in which John- son praises Milton in noble and appropriate language . With some parts of Milton's character , with his independence and viii PREFACE .
... , as Boswell seeks to refute it , by bringing forward those passages in which John- son praises Milton in noble and appropriate language . With some parts of Milton's character , with his independence and viii PREFACE .
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... John Milton was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one ... John , was keeper of the forest of Shot- over , a zealous Papist , who disinherited his son because he had forsaken ...
... John Milton was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one ... John , was keeper of the forest of Shot- over , a zealous Papist , who disinherited his son because he had forsaken ...
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... John and Edward , 15 who were educated by the poet , and from whom is de- rived the only authentic account of his domestic manners . John the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread Eagle , in Bread Street , Dec. 9 , 1608 ...
... John and Edward , 15 who were educated by the poet , and from whom is de- rived the only authentic account of his domestic manners . John the poet , was born in his father's house , at the Spread Eagle , in Bread Street , Dec. 9 , 1608 ...
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... John King , Secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his memory . Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be ...
... John King , Secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his memory . Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be ...
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... John Diodati and Frederick Spanheim , two learned professors of divinity . From Geneva he passed 15 through France ; and came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend ...
... John Diodati and Frederick Spanheim , two learned professors of divinity . From Geneva he passed 15 through France ; and came home , after an absence of a year and three months . At his return he heard of the death of his friend ...
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Adam Addison admired afterwards angels answer appears Areopagitica Aubrey Bentley blank verse blind called censure character Chorus Church College Comus copies Cowley criticism daughter death defence Defensio Secunda delight diction Dryden edition of Milton's Edward Phillips Eikon Basilike elegance elegies Ellwood English entitled epic friends given by Masson heroic poem honour Il Penseroso Italian John Milton Johnson King labour language Latin learning letters Lives Long Parliament Lycidas married Martin Bucer Milton's Poems mind minor poems moral Morus nature never notes opinion pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage passion Penseroso perhaps pleasure poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface prefixed printed probably Prose published reader reason regicides remarks rhyme Salmasius Samson Agonistes Satan says Second Edition seems Smectymnuus Sonnets Spectator Spenser style Thomas thought tion Toland tragedy translation treatise truth W. W. SKEAT write written wrote
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Página 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Página 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Página 101 - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Página 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Página 14 - 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 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Página 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Página 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.