The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise lost: with an Appendix. By W. Hailey [sic].1799 |
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... sentiments of government , morality , and religion . But , happily for the credit of our national un- derstanding , and our national courage , the panic to which I allude has speedily paffed away , and a man of letters may now , I ...
... sentiments of government , morality , and religion . But , happily for the credit of our national un- derstanding , and our national courage , the panic to which I allude has speedily paffed away , and a man of letters may now , I ...
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... sentiment , which they vindicate for themselves , however they disapprove or oppose the opinions of the fectary and the republican , * Quæ urbs , cum in mentem mihi hinc veniat Mori calum- niatoris , facit ut deum hic rurfus teftem ...
... sentiment , which they vindicate for themselves , however they disapprove or oppose the opinions of the fectary and the republican , * Quæ urbs , cum in mentem mihi hinc veniat Mori calum- niatoris , facit ut deum hic rurfus teftem ...
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... sentiment he has inculcated more than once in profe ; and as his life was in har- mony with his precept , it might have taught his enemies to avoid the grofs abfurdity of re- presenting him as the lover of anarchy and confu- fion ...
... sentiment he has inculcated more than once in profe ; and as his life was in har- mony with his precept , it might have taught his enemies to avoid the grofs abfurdity of re- presenting him as the lover of anarchy and confu- fion ...
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... sentiment ; that " I neither fancy nor feel the anger of God , " but , on the contrary , experience and ac- " knowledge his paternal clemency and kindness " in my most important concerns , in this espe- " cially , that , by the comfort ...
... sentiment ; that " I neither fancy nor feel the anger of God , " but , on the contrary , experience and ac- " knowledge his paternal clemency and kindness " in my most important concerns , in this espe- " cially , that , by the comfort ...
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... for a time , but ultimately injures the success of the production ; a remark that may be verified in perusing the Latin profe of Milton , where elegance of language and energy of sentiment suffer not THE LIFE OF MILTON . 127.
... for a time , but ultimately injures the success of the production ; a remark that may be verified in perusing the Latin profe of Milton , where elegance of language and energy of sentiment suffer not THE LIFE OF MILTON . 127.
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Términos y frases comunes
accompliſhed Adam Adam and Eve Adamo addreffed admiration afferted affuredly againſt alfo almoft Andreini antagoniſt appears atque becauſe beſt beſtowed biographer cauſe cenfure character chriftian compofition defcribed defire diſcovers effem Engliſh epic poetry eſteem expreffed expreffion fafe faid fame fancy fays fecond feems fentiments fhall fhould fhow fince fincerity fingular firft firſt fome fonnet foon fpeak friendſhip ftelle ftill ftudy fubject fublime fuch fufferings genius higheſt himſelf honor houſe illuftrious interefting itſelf JOHN MILTON Johnſon juft juftice laft Latin Lauder lefs literary Lucifer mihi Milton mind moft moſt muſt myſelf obferve occafion paffage paffion Paradife Loft perfon pleafing poem poet poetical poetry poffeffed poffible pomo powers praiſe preſent profe publiſhed quæ quid quod racter reader reaſon refided ſays ſeems ſome ſpeak ſpirit ſuch Taffo tenderneſs thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tion uſe verfe verſes virtue Voltaire whofe whoſe writer
Pasajes populares
Página 77 - ... 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 79 - ... 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 61 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 175 - 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 81 - And long it •was not after, when 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...
Página 238 - I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning : for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...
Página 78 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Página 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 78 - 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...
Página 65 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.