An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise LostChapman and Hall, 1855 - 484 páginas |
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... Holy Scripture . His son of the same name , the subject of the present notice , was at that time one of the assistants in the school ; and being a lover of learning and an admirer of genius , he was naturally attracted by the future ...
... Holy Scripture . His son of the same name , the subject of the present notice , was at that time one of the assistants in the school ; and being a lover of learning and an admirer of genius , he was naturally attracted by the future ...
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... Holy Ghost , and these three are one , " 1 John v . 7. Milton was aware how dubious this text was , on account of its absence from so many manuscripts and versions ; but he argues that , even granting its genuineness , it is nothing to ...
... Holy Ghost , and these three are one , " 1 John v . 7. Milton was aware how dubious this text was , on account of its absence from so many manuscripts and versions ; but he argues that , even granting its genuineness , it is nothing to ...
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... Holy Spirit : - With regard to the nature of the Spirit , in what manner it ex- ists , or whence it arose , Scripture is silent ; which is a caution to us not to be too hasty in our conclusions on the subject . . . . The terms emanation ...
... Holy Spirit : - With regard to the nature of the Spirit , in what manner it ex- ists , or whence it arose , Scripture is silent ; which is a caution to us not to be too hasty in our conclusions on the subject . . . . The terms emanation ...
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... Holy Spirit . . . . When we are baptized in the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , this is not done to impress upon our minds the inherent or relative nature of these three persons , but the benefits conferred by them on those ...
... Holy Spirit . . . . When we are baptized in the name of the Father , Son , and Holy Ghost , this is not done to impress upon our minds the inherent or relative nature of these three persons , but the benefits conferred by them on those ...
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... holy , everlasting station . . . - Chap . xii . 15 . We may see how accurately these passages accord with those in the Epistles of Peter and Jude . Milton next treats of man before the Fall . The tree of knowledge , he says , was not a ...
... holy , everlasting station . . . - Chap . xii . 15 . We may see how accurately these passages accord with those in the Epistles of Peter and Jude . Milton next treats of man before the Fall . The tree of knowledge , he says , was not a ...
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Página 377 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks : 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...
Página 477 - He made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 353 - 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 inbreed 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...
Página 355 - ... 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...
Página 368 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 480 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Página 355 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the...
Página 296 - For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise ; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled: Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides...
Página 365 - 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, that is a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Página 124 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd...