An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton: Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty; Comus, Lycidas, and Samson AgonistesMacmillan, 1899 - 303 pages |
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... least knowledge - proud , and the more spiritual vitality they have , the greater will be their humility and sim- plicity the gates to true wisdom . ' He [ the poet ] must take to pieces , ' says Macaulay , ' the whole web of his mind ...
... least knowledge - proud , and the more spiritual vitality they have , the greater will be their humility and sim- plicity the gates to true wisdom . ' He [ the poet ] must take to pieces , ' says Macaulay , ' the whole web of his mind ...
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... least , according as the weight of the subject requires ; if I take the same course in handling almost the greatest subject that ever was ( without being too tedious in it ) I am in hopes of attaining two things , which indeed I ...
... least , according as the weight of the subject requires ; if I take the same course in handling almost the greatest subject that ever was ( without being too tedious in it ) I am in hopes of attaining two things , which indeed I ...
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... least to celebrate those that did , ) yet as having no confidence in any such advantages , I have recourse to the divine assistance ; and invoke the great and holy God , the giver of all good gifts , that I may as substantially , and as ...
... least to celebrate those that did , ) yet as having no confidence in any such advantages , I have recourse to the divine assistance ; and invoke the great and holy God , the giver of all good gifts , that I may as substantially , and as ...
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... least . Nature and laws would be in an ill case , if slavery should find what to say for itself , and liberty be mute ; and if tyrants should find men to plead for them , and they that can master and vanquish tyrants , should not be ...
... least . Nature and laws would be in an ill case , if slavery should find what to say for itself , and liberty be mute ; and if tyrants should find men to plead for them , and they that can master and vanquish tyrants , should not be ...
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... least , affected by the wrinkles of age . If there be one particle of falsehood in this relation , I should deservedly incur the ridicule of many thousands of my countrymen , and even many foreigners to whom I am personally known . But ...
... least , affected by the wrinkles of age . If there be one particle of falsehood in this relation , I should deservedly incur the ridicule of many thousands of my countrymen , and even many foreigners to whom I am personally known . But ...
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Page 104 - ... 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...
Page 82 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 62 - ... to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her syren 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.
Page 168 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 168 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 104 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 171 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 174 - Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...
Page xv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 172 - Tempered to the oaten flute Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song. But, oh! the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return ! Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes, mourn.