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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... il grande amore Che m ' han fatto cercar lo tuo volume . Tu sei lo mio maestro e il mio autore . " - DANTE . LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL , 193 , PICCADILLY L 1855 . PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR , LITTLE QUEEN STREET , AN ACCOUNT.
... il grande amore Che m ' han fatto cercar lo tuo volume . Tu sei lo mio maestro e il mio autore . " - DANTE . LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL , 193 , PICCADILLY L 1855 . PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR , LITTLE QUEEN STREET , AN ACCOUNT.
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With an Introduction to Paradise Lost Thomas Keightley. PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR , LITTLE QUEEN STREET , LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS . TO THE RIGHT REV . CONNOP THIRLWALL , D.D. ,
With an Introduction to Paradise Lost Thomas Keightley. PRINTED BY JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR , LITTLE QUEEN STREET , LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS . TO THE RIGHT REV . CONNOP THIRLWALL , D.D. ,
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... printed a Treatise of Civil Power in Ec- clesiastical Causes ; and another , Considerations touch- ing the Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . He wrote also , but did not publish , A Letter to a Friend concerning the ...
... printed a Treatise of Civil Power in Ec- clesiastical Causes ; and another , Considerations touch- ing the Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . He wrote also , but did not publish , A Letter to a Friend concerning the ...
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... printed at the expense of the author . But this is not by any means a probable supposition . It is well known that the terms on which this great poem were published were £ 5 in hand , the same sum on the sale of thirteen hundred copies ...
... printed at the expense of the author . But this is not by any means a probable supposition . It is well known that the terms on which this great poem were published were £ 5 in hand , the same sum on the sale of thirteen hundred copies ...
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... the lapse of a century and a half . In 1671 he published Paradise Regained and Sam- X son Agonistes , in a thin octavo volume , handsomely printed . If Mr. Tomkyns was the examiner , it F 2 PARADISE REGAINED , AND SAMSON . 67.
... the lapse of a century and a half . In 1671 he published Paradise Regained and Sam- X son Agonistes , in a thin octavo volume , handsomely printed . If Mr. Tomkyns was the examiner , it F 2 PARADISE REGAINED , AND SAMSON . 67.
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acquainted aliter nescit ancient angels Anne Milton appears assert Aubrey authority Bishop cæsura called century Christ Christian Church Comus critics Dante daughter death deceased divine doctrine doubt earth edition England English evil Faery Queen faith father give Gospel Greek hath heaven Henry Lawes Holy honour Horton iamb Interr Italian Italy John Milton King lady language Latin learned letter lines living Lord Lycidas manner marriage mind nature never observe opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage perhaps person Phillips poem poet poet's poetic poetry Powell probably prose published Pyrrha reader reason regard religion respondet rime Samson Agonistes Samuel Hartlib says Scripture seems Smectymnuus sonnet speaking Spirit suppose syllables tells things thou thought throne tion Todd treatise trochee truth verse virtue Warton wife words write written wrote
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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...