John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... of this biography : and if it should subserve this end , its author will be content that his own labours should be dis- regarded or forgotten . June , 1851 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Scantiness of the Material offered by iv PREFACE .
... of this biography : and if it should subserve this end , its author will be content that his own labours should be dis- regarded or forgotten . June , 1851 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. Scantiness of the Material offered by iv PREFACE .
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... labour have been unnecessarily wasted in rebutting these calumnies . I will endeavour to dispose of them with greater brevity . The story of his having been subjected to corporal chastisement at his college , though argued with ...
... labour have been unnecessarily wasted in rebutting these calumnies . I will endeavour to dispose of them with greater brevity . The story of his having been subjected to corporal chastisement at his college , though argued with ...
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... labours of the ploughman , and the mower ; then casts his eyes about him over scenes of smiling plenty ; and looks up to the distant tower , the residence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety , through a day of labour ...
... labours of the ploughman , and the mower ; then casts his eyes about him over scenes of smiling plenty ; and looks up to the distant tower , the residence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety , through a day of labour ...
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... labours from my world of gold : There while a purple glory veils my face , Feel my mind swell to fit her heavenly place : And , smiling at my life's successful fight , Exult and brighten in ethereal light . In terminating my notices of ...
... labours from my world of gold : There while a purple glory veils my face , Feel my mind swell to fit her heavenly place : And , smiling at my life's successful fight , Exult and brighten in ethereal light . In terminating my notices of ...
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... Italian encomiasts , he adds , " I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to.
... Italian encomiasts , he adds , " I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home , and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intense study , ( which I take to.
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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 12 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
Página 180 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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 181 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
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 121 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Página 136 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates: proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any who have the Power, to call to Account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due Conviction, to depose, and put him to Death, if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.
Página 120 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Página 123 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.