Select Prose Works, Band 1Hatchard, 1836 - 2 Seiten |
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... nature , an elaborate exposition of the advantages likely to accrue to the public from a revival of the best Works of our best Authors , will be altogether unnecessary . They already know that , in every art and science , those who ...
... nature , an elaborate exposition of the advantages likely to accrue to the public from a revival of the best Works of our best Authors , will be altogether unnecessary . They already know that , in every art and science , those who ...
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... nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is interested . 3. However this may be , few of those who have hitherto undertaken to set forth in order the events of Milton's ...
... nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is interested . 3. However this may be , few of those who have hitherto undertaken to set forth in order the events of Milton's ...
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... Nature never designed the muses to be the hand - maids of despotism ; nor can their ser- vant , without betraying his high trust , touch the lyre they have placed in his hands for any but who practise virtue . 7. Milton , as he ought ...
... Nature never designed the muses to be the hand - maids of despotism ; nor can their ser- vant , without betraying his high trust , touch the lyre they have placed in his hands for any but who practise virtue . 7. Milton , as he ought ...
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... nature - and what can do this more effectu- ally than oppression ? -was , in fact , the enemy of God and Christ , and to be opposed accordingly . 8. Such were the considerations which led Mil- ton to engraft the politician on the poet ...
... nature - and what can do this more effectu- ally than oppression ? -was , in fact , the enemy of God and Christ , and to be opposed accordingly . 8. Such were the considerations which led Mil- ton to engraft the politician on the poet ...
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... nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the meanest duties , and inspire a soul into actions deemed by the dull and commonplace incapable of elevation . Epami- nondas was a poet , when ...
... nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the meanest duties , and inspire a soul into actions deemed by the dull and commonplace incapable of elevation . Epami- nondas was a poet , when ...
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Seite 181 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Seite 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 234 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Seite 241 - 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 mid-day beam...
Seite 144 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 237 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Seite 180 - I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves, as well as men, and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Seite 201 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Seite lxxxiii - 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...
Seite lxxxiii - ... 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...