The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 páginas |
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... kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovrain Lord was nigh . The following stanza is not quite so un- exceptionable and pure ; but its errors are venial , and it closes beautifully- * Who now hath quite forgot ...
... kings sate still with awful eye , As if they surely knew their sovrain Lord was nigh . The following stanza is not quite so un- exceptionable and pure ; but its errors are venial , and it closes beautifully- * Who now hath quite forgot ...
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... King , one of its fellows , and a son of sir John King , Knt . secretary for Ireland in the reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles . This young man , whose vessel ' foundered , as she was sailing from Chester to Ireland , • From a letter ...
... King , one of its fellows , and a son of sir John King , Knt . secretary for Ireland in the reigns of Elizabeth James and Charles . This young man , whose vessel ' foundered , as she was sailing from Chester to Ireland , • From a letter ...
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... king enjoin her obedience . Accept there- fore my congratulations , and allow me to return you my double thanks , on account both of your friendship and your profound skill . I had long indeed , in consequence of your arrangement , been ...
... king enjoin her obedience . Accept there- fore my congratulations , and allow me to return you my double thanks , on account both of your friendship and your profound skill . I had long indeed , in consequence of your arrangement , been ...
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... king , after mine own recess from Venice . “ I should think , that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles , and thence by sea to Genoa , whence the passage into Tuscany is as diur- nal as a Gravesend ...
... king , after mine own recess from Venice . “ I should think , that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles , and thence by sea to Genoa , whence the passage into Tuscany is as diur- nal as a Gravesend ...
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... king of Thessaly , is too well known to require a repetition of it . Mr. Warton has observed , before me , that Milton in this passage has imitated a beautiful chorus in the Alcestis . I wish however that Milton on this occasion ...
... king of Thessaly , is too well known to require a repetition of it . Mr. Warton has observed , before me , that Milton in this passage has imitated a beautiful chorus in the Alcestis . I wish however that Milton on this occasion ...
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Página 252 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 151 - 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.
Página 389 - CVRIAC, 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 394 - 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.
Página 151 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Página 507 - 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.
Página 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Página 254 - 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...