Milton, Man and ThinkerL. Macveagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 363 páginas |
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... mind . . . . He took Puritanism up partly , no doubt , be- cause it embodied his favourite virtues of fortitude and temperance , but also because it was the only organized force in that age which , by overthrowing the old order , would ...
... mind . . . . He took Puritanism up partly , no doubt , be- cause it embodied his favourite virtues of fortitude and temperance , but also because it was the only organized force in that age which , by overthrowing the old order , would ...
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... mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in , and see each blissful deity · How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings . Then sing of secret things that came to pass ...
... mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in , and see each blissful deity · How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings . Then sing of secret things that came to pass ...
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... mind.20 But in himself , he has devoted his whole life to a supreme poetical enterprise , and he looks upon the world as from a tower in his pride , strength , and seriousness -a perfect master of himself , his mind set with a sort of ...
... mind.20 But in himself , he has devoted his whole life to a supreme poetical enterprise , and he looks upon the world as from a tower in his pride , strength , and seriousness -a perfect master of himself , his mind set with a sort of ...
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... mind , And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence , Till all be made immortal : but when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts ...
... mind , And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence , Till all be made immortal : but when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts ...
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... mind , the normal rule : body and spirit will become one , will all become immortal ; all dis- tinction between them will disappear . Here already the essential distinction is weakened : the body can become spirit through chastity ; the ...
... mind , the normal rule : body and spirit will become one , will all become immortal ; all dis- tinction between them will disappear . Here already the essential distinction is weakened : the body can become spirit through chastity ; the ...
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Adam angels Areopagitica Augustine Azazel body Book of Enoch cause Chapter chastity Christ Christian Church Comus conception created creation creatures death decree Defensio desire destiny divine divorce doctrine dogma earth eternal evil expression Fall Father feeling flesh Fludd give glory God's harmony hath Heaven Hence Holy human Ibid important intellectual Irenæus JAMES HOLLY John Milton justice Kabbalah kabbalistic king liberty light living man's mankind marriage Masson matter Milton Milton's mind Milton's thought mortal Mortalists Mutschmann nature Neo-Platonism ontology opinion original pamphlets pantheism Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage passion poem poet political prelates Presbyterians pride Prose Puritan reason regenerated religion religious S. B. LILJEGREN Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture seems sensuality Smectymnuus soul speak spirit substance Tertullian Tetrachordon texts thee theory things thou tion Treatise triumph truth tyrant virtue whole wisdom woman Zohar
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Página 184 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Página 74 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 263 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Página 77 - 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...
Página 253 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Página 76 - 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.
Página 215 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Página 292 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed...
Página 214 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 215 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who...