John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... little else than a fragment of the history of their times . To those who can appreciate the loftiest intellectual powers , sustained by vast learning , and enriched with the B rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved.
... little else than a fragment of the history of their times . To those who can appreciate the loftiest intellectual powers , sustained by vast learning , and enriched with the B rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved.
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... learning which were to his vast intellect what machinery is to motive power . The second , after a brief but romantic interval of travel , was occupied with political and polemical controversy , and with public and official affairs ...
... learning which were to his vast intellect what machinery is to motive power . The second , after a brief but romantic interval of travel , was occupied with political and polemical controversy , and with public and official affairs ...
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... spoils and consolidated its empire amidst a darkness only broken by occasional rays of art , and occasional luminaries of learning . With what In spite of the wild or a cold obliqueness these THE AGE IN WHICH HE LIVED .
... spoils and consolidated its empire amidst a darkness only broken by occasional rays of art , and occasional luminaries of learning . With what In spite of the wild or a cold obliqueness these THE AGE IN WHICH HE LIVED .
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... learning which , as if by a necessity he could not control , crowded the productions of his after life , it is easy to trace the frequent reminiscences of his first love . At college he was particularly admired for his academical ...
... learning which , as if by a necessity he could not control , crowded the productions of his after life , it is easy to trace the frequent reminiscences of his first love . At college he was particularly admired for his academical ...
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... learning is in fault , and that I have given up myself to dream away my years in the arms of studious retirement , like Endymion with the Moon , as the tale of Latmus goes ; yet consider , that if it were no more but the mere love of 66 ...
... learning is in fault , and that I have given up myself to dream away my years in the arms of studious retirement , like Endymion with the Moon , as the tale of Latmus goes ; yet consider , that if it were no more but the mere love of 66 ...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ... Cyrus R. Edmonds Visualização integral - 1851 |
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admiration argument authority Berkeley better bishops CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cause Charles Christ Christian civil commonwealth Commonwealth of ENGLAND conscience council Cromwell death deposed despotism Divine doctrine Duke of Savoy ecclesiastical Edinburgh Review Eikonoklastes eloquent enemies England entitled episcopacy faith favour freedom friends genius glorious glory God's gospel hath heaven heresy honour JOHN MILTON Johnson judgment justice king labour Latin learning less liberty licensing Lord Lycidas magistrate majesty MARTIN BUCER ment Milton mind ministers nation nature never noble Nonconformity opinion oppression Paradise Lost Parliament passage peace persecution Piedmont piety poem poet political popery praise prelacy prelates presbyterians principles Prose Protestant reason reformed religion religious religious habits Salmasius says schism Scripture Second Defence Smectymnuus sonnets sophisms soul spirit suffer things thou thought tion treatise truth tyranny tyrant UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA virtue worship writings written
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Página 111 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 219 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Página 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 26 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 236 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Página 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Página 159 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Página 211 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?