John Milton: A Short Story of His Life and WorksMacmillan, 1899 - 285 páginas |
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... true poem , and to leave behind him some child of his imagination that posterity would not willingly let die . He watched , too , with poignant anguish the headlong course of Charles and Laud , toward destruction , and saw that they ...
... true poem , and to leave behind him some child of his imagination that posterity would not willingly let die . He watched , too , with poignant anguish the headlong course of Charles and Laud , toward destruction , and saw that they ...
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... true , noble , and powerful way . Finally he wrote verse to relieve his pent - up feelings or to oblige friends , yet never without keeping his eyes fixed on the masters of his craft and registering a solemn vow not to allow himself to ...
... true , noble , and powerful way . Finally he wrote verse to relieve his pent - up feelings or to oblige friends , yet never without keeping his eyes fixed on the masters of his craft and registering a solemn vow not to allow himself to ...
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... true dignity of the teacher's office , will ever regret the quiet months devoted to pedagogical pur- suits and the " intermitted studies . " So , too , no one not a hopeless partisan of the Stuarts , / or biassed like Mark Pattison in ...
... true dignity of the teacher's office , will ever regret the quiet months devoted to pedagogical pur- suits and the " intermitted studies . " So , too , no one not a hopeless partisan of the Stuarts , / or biassed like Mark Pattison in ...
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... true marriage could not be have just as much right to condemn him for his ultra - puritanism or his ultra - republican- ism that is , we have no right to condemn him at all , for we are obviously called upon to judge him now only as a ...
... true marriage could not be have just as much right to condemn him for his ultra - puritanism or his ultra - republican- ism that is , we have no right to condemn him at all , for we are obviously called upon to judge him now only as a ...
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... true scholar must value more than life itself ; he put from him all anticipation of the noble pleasure he had looked forward to de- riving from the first sight of his great poem in print ; he may even have despaired of ever composing ...
... true scholar must value more than life itself ; he put from him all anticipation of the noble pleasure he had looked forward to de- riving from the first sight of his great poem in print ; he may even have despaired of ever composing ...
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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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admirers Areopagitica artistic beauty Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Cambridge CHAPTER character charm classical composition Comus couplet critics Dante Dante's death Defence diction Diodati dise Lost Divine Comedy drama edition effect elaborate elegiac English epic epitaph Epitaphium Damonis exquisite fact friends Garnett genius Greek Hence Homer Horton ideal Il Penseroso Iliad imagination interest Italian Johnson King L'Allegro Latin verses less lines literature Lord Brackley Lycidas lyrical lyrist Mark Pattison masque Masson matter ment metrical Milton modern nature never nobility noble Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passages pastoral elegy Pattison Penseroso perhaps poem poet poet's poetic poetry political praise probably prose Puritan reader reason regard rhymes rhythm Samson Samson Agonistes seems Shakspere Shakspere's sincerity song sonnets Spenser spirit splendid stanzas style sublime supreme syntax theme thought tion ton's tracts tribute true words writing written wrote youth
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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.