John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and WorksMacmillan, 1899 - 285 páginas |
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... have taken full advantage , and Mark Pattison and Dr. Garnett have covered the field admirably in their smaller volumes . But I have thought that the new book always has an ad- vantage as a literary missioner , if I may use vii.
... have taken full advantage , and Mark Pattison and Dr. Garnett have covered the field admirably in their smaller volumes . But I have thought that the new book always has an ad- vantage as a literary missioner , if I may use vii.
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... thought him an angel or an Angle , but it is easy to agree with Dr. Garnett that " the meeting between the two great blind men of their century is one of the most picturesque in history ; it would have been more pathetic still if ...
... thought him an angel or an Angle , but it is easy to agree with Dr. Garnett that " the meeting between the two great blind men of their century is one of the most picturesque in history ; it would have been more pathetic still if ...
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... thoughts , his unwillingness to rush into print will smack neither of the irony of self- judgment nor of false modesty . Be this as it may , it was an unpropitious time for the muses that he or his publisher chose ; but it was not many ...
... thoughts , his unwillingness to rush into print will smack neither of the irony of self- judgment nor of false modesty . Be this as it may , it was an unpropitious time for the muses that he or his publisher chose ; but it was not many ...
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... thought of a re- fusal , and he thus became , as Dr. Garnett happily puts it , " the Orpheus among the Argonauts of the Commonwealth . " His first work as Secretary that need be noticed here was his " Eikonoklastes , " written in answer ...
... thought of a re- fusal , and he thus became , as Dr. Garnett happily puts it , " the Orpheus among the Argonauts of the Commonwealth . " His first work as Secretary that need be noticed here was his " Eikonoklastes , " written in answer ...
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... thought little of his sudden leap into European fame through the complete victory he had gained over Sal- masius . That victory , like all partisan victo- ries , was dearly bought , for the price paid was nothing less than the ...
... thought little of his sudden leap into European fame through the complete victory he had gained over Sal- masius . That victory , like all partisan victo- ries , was dearly bought , for the price paid was nothing less than the ...
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John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and Works William Peterfield Trent Visualização completa - 1899 |
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Página 273 - No more of that. — I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 275 - Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 188 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 274 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories: for never since created man...
Página 203 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste.
Página 93 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Página 261 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 248 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
Página 98 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law...
Página 36 - 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.