The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 8
... by professing my respect for him . } On striking the account with public criti- cism , I am gratified to find the balance con- siderably in my favour . If in some of its pages I am subjected to more censure and in others 8 PREFACE .
... by professing my respect for him . } On striking the account with public criti- cism , I am gratified to find the balance con- siderably in my favour . If in some of its pages I am subjected to more censure and in others 8 PREFACE .
Σελίδα 19
... favoured me with notices which are not of a nature to exact my thanks , or to impress me with any strong idea of a just and honourable mind . Of one of my translations alone has he con- descended to speak ; and of this he has judged it ...
... favoured me with notices which are not of a nature to exact my thanks , or to impress me with any strong idea of a just and honourable mind . Of one of my translations alone has he con- descended to speak ; and of this he has judged it ...
Σελίδα 22
... their applause , would expose me to the suspicion of a vanity , of which I am unconscious : but I must say that , if I have not been so fortunate as to obtain the favour of Mr. Hayley , I have experienced some degree 22 PREFACE .
... their applause , would expose me to the suspicion of a vanity , of which I am unconscious : but I must say that , if I have not been so fortunate as to obtain the favour of Mr. Hayley , I have experienced some degree 22 PREFACE .
Σελίδα 23
Charles Symmons. favour of Mr. Hayley , I have experienced some degree of consolation under the humili- ating circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL ...
Charles Symmons. favour of Mr. Hayley , I have experienced some degree of consolation under the humili- ating circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL ...
Σελίδα 30
... favoured with translations of my au- thor's sixth elegy , of the greater part of his ode to Rouse , of more than one of his fami- liar epistles , and of many portions of his controversial pieces . These translations the reader would ...
... favoured with translations of my au- thor's sixth elegy , of the greater part of his ode to Rouse , of more than one of his fami- liar epistles , and of many portions of his controversial pieces . These translations the reader would ...
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Σελίδα 161 - 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 hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Σελίδα 212 - 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...
Σελίδα 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Σελίδα 293 - 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.
Σελίδα 406 - 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...
Σελίδα 519 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Σελίδα 196 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Σελίδα 264 - 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...
Σελίδα 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Σελίδα 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?