The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 13
... occasions is frequently , as I know , in the hand of ability and learning : but it is also , as I am likewise certain , not infre quently in that of imbecillity and ignorance , I am far however from objecting to this in- discriminate ...
... occasions is frequently , as I know , in the hand of ability and learning : but it is also , as I am likewise certain , not infre quently in that of imbecillity and ignorance , I am far however from objecting to this in- discriminate ...
Σελίδα 20
... occasions which he has improved to display his candour and his taste , by lavishing extra- vagant commendations on some very subor- dinate versions of the " Mansus " and the " Damon , " he has carefully buried mine in the profundity of ...
... occasions which he has improved to display his candour and his taste , by lavishing extra- vagant commendations on some very subor- dinate versions of the " Mansus " and the " Damon , " he has carefully buried mine in the profundity of ...
Σελίδα 31
... occasion to introduce into the body of my volume : but I must not omit the present opportunity of mentioning that many of my last sheets , as they passed through the press , have been im- proved by the revision of this accurate critic ...
... occasion to introduce into the body of my volume : but I must not omit the present opportunity of mentioning that many of my last sheets , as they passed through the press , have been im- proved by the revision of this accurate critic ...
Σελίδα 43
... occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally from Wales . We are assured that she was an exemplary woinan , and was particularly distinguished by her numerous charities . From this ...
... occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally from Wales . We are assured that she was an exemplary woinan , and was particularly distinguished by her numerous charities . From this ...
Σελίδα 50
... occasion , and forced it from its proper station next to " Zenonis , " could he playfully intend an allusion to his tutor's Stow ? I suspect that he did . It is probable that Young did not return from the continent till about the end of ...
... occasion , and forced it from its proper station next to " Zenonis , " could he playfully intend an allusion to his tutor's Stow ? I suspect that he did . It is probable that Young did not return from the continent till about the end of ...
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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?