The Life of John MiltonG. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822 - 490 páginas |
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... opinion of Dr. Parr , from which it is impossible to dissent without a feeling of trembling diffidence , I can- not profess myself to be certain of the authenticity of a law which has not been invariably observed by the greatest masters ...
... opinion of Dr. Parr , from which it is impossible to dissent without a feeling of trembling diffidence , I can- not profess myself to be certain of the authenticity of a law which has not been invariably observed by the greatest masters ...
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... opinion , dares to think and speak and be what genuine wisdom has universally pronounced best , by a kind of necessity becomes instantly , wherever I find him , an object of my ardent attachment . I myself may from nature or through ...
... opinion , dares to think and speak and be what genuine wisdom has universally pronounced best , by a kind of necessity becomes instantly , wherever I find him , an object of my ardent attachment . I myself may from nature or through ...
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... opinion . The purity of their language has been commended by Italian critics ; and for any affected and forced thoughts , which may be 77 Leonora of Este , with whom Tasso was deeply enamoured . The melancholy malady of this great poet ...
... opinion . The purity of their language has been commended by Italian critics ; and for any affected and forced thoughts , which may be 77 Leonora of Este , with whom Tasso was deeply enamoured . The melancholy malady of this great poet ...
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... opinion , on this topic , similar to mine . " I am persuaded , " says he , " that Paradise Lost contains the description of many a Raphael and Parmegiano . " Maty's Review , v . vii . p . 284 . of Milton unquestionably maintained an ...
... opinion , on this topic , similar to mine . " I am persuaded , " says he , " that Paradise Lost contains the description of many a Raphael and Parmegiano . " Maty's Review , v . vii . p . 284 . of Milton unquestionably maintained an ...
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... opinion Montesquieu , as is generally known , has rested a great part of his system . Climate , other- wise than as in its extremes it may affect the physical and organic nature of man , evidently possesses no ascendency over his mental ...
... opinion Montesquieu , as is generally known , has rested a great part of his system . Climate , other- wise than as in its extremes it may affect the physical and organic nature of man , evidently possesses no ascendency over his mental ...
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Página 386 - 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 296 - 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...
Página 102 - 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...
Página 221 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Página 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 184 - 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...
Página 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Página 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Página 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 101 - ... 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...