Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineEdward Rainford, 1828 - 48 páginas |
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... highest order of intellect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fas- tidiousness which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted in ...
... highest order of intellect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fas- tidiousness which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted in ...
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... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True ; po- etry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True ; po- etry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
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... highest triumph , in imparting a character of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so remote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
... highest triumph , in imparting a character of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so remote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
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... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
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... highest merit . A great mind cannot without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes ...
... highest merit . A great mind cannot without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes ...
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