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To talk of the ethics of the Stage to him or to his followers was lost labour . In fact ,
two Ordinances were passed in 1647 for the total suppression of Plays and
Interludes . Notwithstanding Milton's various and strong claims on the veneration
of ...
To talk of the ethics of the Stage to him or to his followers was lost labour . In fact ,
two Ordinances were passed in 1647 for the total suppression of Plays and
Interludes . Notwithstanding Milton's various and strong claims on the veneration
of ...
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The primordial seeds of Paradise Lost are still in existence as the elements of a
Tragedy , which he once projected to have wrought up with the machinery of the
Athenian Stage . In the same rude and indigested mass , 66 Moses a porozesso .
The primordial seeds of Paradise Lost are still in existence as the elements of a
Tragedy , which he once projected to have wrought up with the machinery of the
Athenian Stage . In the same rude and indigested mass , 66 Moses a porozesso .
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No man ( as Dryden has also observed ) has more copiously translated Homer's
Grecisms than the Authour of Paradise Lost , and of a like critical attention to his
metrical modes a modern Writer has remarked , that none conversant with both ...
No man ( as Dryden has also observed ) has more copiously translated Homer's
Grecisms than the Authour of Paradise Lost , and of a like critical attention to his
metrical modes a modern Writer has remarked , that none conversant with both ...
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Our Poets were slow in learning the art to blot ; and not unfrequently lost
themselves in expansion . Few Prose - writers had any fear , that they could
oppress their subject , or weary their Readers . Most of them heaped together all
they could ...
Our Poets were slow in learning the art to blot ; and not unfrequently lost
themselves in expansion . Few Prose - writers had any fear , that they could
oppress their subject , or weary their Readers . Most of them heaped together all
they could ...
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... as notices on personal touches , which have lost their point from age , must be
always convenient . Perhaps there is no English Authour of the same standing
who demands glossarial and explanatory comment more frequently than MILTON
.
... as notices on personal touches , which have lost their point from age , must be
always convenient . Perhaps there is no English Authour of the same standing
who demands glossarial and explanatory comment more frequently than MILTON
.
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Página 153 - Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Página 154 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Página 88 - Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Página 65 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página vi - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility...
Página 173 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Página 122 - 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...
Página 5 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Página 109 - 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 195 - This I know, that errors in a good government and in a bad are equally almost incident...