John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... never be presented with that audience of his conver- sation , and those charming glimpses of his privacy , which have perpetuated the domestic life of so many inferior men , and which , especially in the case of the most eminent , but ...
... never be presented with that audience of his conver- sation , and those charming glimpses of his privacy , which have perpetuated the domestic life of so many inferior men , and which , especially in the case of the most eminent , but ...
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... never affected a pedantic conformity to the classic models , though in Latin verse his resemblance to them was at once so close and so natural , that Mr. Macaulay justly applies to him a tasteful criticism on Cowley , that " he wore the ...
... never affected a pedantic conformity to the classic models , though in Latin verse his resemblance to them was at once so close and so natural , that Mr. Macaulay justly applies to him a tasteful criticism on Cowley , that " he wore the ...
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... never shall obtain it . Nature , therefore , would presently work the more prevalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good ...
... never shall obtain it . Nature , therefore , would presently work the more prevalent way , if there were nothing but this inferior bent of herself to restrain her . Lastly , the love of learning , as it is the pursuit of something good ...
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... never to be the first to begin any conversation on religion ; but if any questions were put to me concerning my faith , to declare it without any reserve or fear . I , nevertheless , returned to Rome . I took no steps to conceal either ...
... never to be the first to begin any conversation on religion ; but if any questions were put to me concerning my faith , to declare it without any reserve or fear . I , nevertheless , returned to Rome . I took no steps to conceal either ...
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... Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed , in all the Latin poems of Milton , the artificial manner , indispensable to such works , is admirably preserved , while , at the same time ...
... Never before were such marked originality and such exquisite mimicry found together . Indeed , in all the Latin poems of Milton , the artificial manner , indispensable to such works , is admirably preserved , while , at the same time ...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ... Cyrus R. Edmonds Visualização integral - 1851 |
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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?