The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the AuthorHilliard, Gray, and Company, 1839 |
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... less copious and instructive than might be expected , is interesting and valuable . It supplies us with many facts re- specting the Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opin- ions . It was written by a person who had been ...
... less copious and instructive than might be expected , is interesting and valuable . It supplies us with many facts re- specting the Poet's manner of life , his circumstances , and opin- ions . It was written by a person who had been ...
Page xi
... less of arrogance in the manner in which they are proposed , than might have been expected , when the boldness of his system was so openly avowed . He had the humanity to leave the established text untouched and to confine the troubled ...
... less of arrogance in the manner in which they are proposed , than might have been expected , when the boldness of his system was so openly avowed . He had the humanity to leave the established text untouched and to confine the troubled ...
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... less surprised to hear that Spenser was alike the object of their early admiration - legendo Spensero nostro , Scriptore sane il- lustri , et vel adultis difficili . ' Happy had it been for Cowley's fame , had he not early wandered away ...
... less surprised to hear that Spenser was alike the object of their early admiration - legendo Spensero nostro , Scriptore sane il- lustri , et vel adultis difficili . ' Happy had it been for Cowley's fame , had he not early wandered away ...
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... less ; '13 -and in his third letter to his friend and tutor Alexan- 12 The author of a Modest Confutation against a Slanderous and Scurrilous Libel , first charged him with being vomited out of the university , after an inordinate and ...
... less ; '13 -and in his third letter to his friend and tutor Alexan- 12 The author of a Modest Confutation against a Slanderous and Scurrilous Libel , first charged him with being vomited out of the university , after an inordinate and ...
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... less virtuous , less self - denying , or less benevolent than others ? Is not their occupation itself almost a school of virtue ? Lessons of civil wisdom and maxims of prudential conduct will be learnt by all ; and is not a man ...
... less virtuous , less self - denying , or less benevolent than others ? Is not their occupation itself almost a school of virtue ? Lessons of civil wisdom and maxims of prudential conduct will be learnt by all ; and is not a man ...
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Page 137 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 14 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 82 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 159 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 31 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 61 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 159 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 122 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 29 - There went a fame in heaven that he, ere long, Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven : Thither, if but to pry, shall be, perhaps...