The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men, and Books, Sects, Parties, and Opinions; with Amyntor; Or a Defense of Milton's Life; and Various Notes Now Added. London, Printed for I. Darby, 1699Reprinted for A. Millar, 1761 - 259 pages |
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... letter writ- ten to one at my defire from his laft wife , who is ftill alive . " I perus'd the papers of one of his nephews ; learnt what I could in difcourfe with B his JOHN MILTON . ૐ monly feen, that hiftorians are fufpected rather ...
... letter writ- ten to one at my defire from his laft wife , who is ftill alive . " I perus'd the papers of one of his nephews ; learnt what I could in difcourfe with B his JOHN MILTON . ૐ monly feen, that hiftorians are fufpected rather ...
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... letters is inscribed ) and partly under Dr. GILL , the chief master of Paul's school ( to whom likewise the fifth of the fame letters is written ) he made an incredible progrefs in the knowlege of words and things , his diligence and ...
... letters is inscribed ) and partly under Dr. GILL , the chief master of Paul's school ( to whom likewise the fifth of the fame letters is written ) he made an incredible progrefs in the knowlege of words and things , his diligence and ...
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... letters . Being thus initiated in feveral tongues , and having not flightly tafted the inexpreffible sweets of philosophy , he was fent at fifteen to Chrift's College in Cambridg * to purfue more arduous and folid ftudies . This fame ...
... letters . Being thus initiated in feveral tongues , and having not flightly tafted the inexpreffible sweets of philosophy , he was fent at fifteen to Chrift's College in Cambridg * to purfue more arduous and folid ftudies . This fame ...
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... letters . The five fucceding years he liv'd with his father in his country retirement at Horton near Colebrook in Barkshire , where at full leifure he perus'd all the Greec and Latin writers ; but was not fo much in love with his ...
... letters . The five fucceding years he liv'd with his father in his country retirement at Horton near Colebrook in Barkshire , where at full leifure he perus'd all the Greec and Latin writers ; but was not fo much in love with his ...
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... letter of direction and advice from the famous Sir HENRY WOTTON , who was a long time ambassador from king JAMES the first to the republic of Venice . Being arriv'd at Paris , he was moft kindly receiv'd by the English ambaffador , who ...
... letter of direction and advice from the famous Sir HENRY WOTTON , who was a long time ambassador from king JAMES the first to the republic of Venice . Being arriv'd at Paris , he was moft kindly receiv'd by the English ambaffador , who ...
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Page 120 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 45 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 106 - 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.
Page 119 - 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.
Page 31 - I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce, whom both for the pleasing sound of their numerous writing, which in imitation I found most easy, and most agreeable to nature's part in me, and for their matter, which what it is, there be few who know not, I was so allured to read, that no recreation came to me better welcome...
Page 22 - 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, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 119 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 237 - ... upon my misery with thine eye of mercy, and let thine infinite power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me, as to thee shall seem most convenient.
Page 32 - I deplored; and above them all, preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honor of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression.
Page 120 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.