Life of John MiltonWalter Scott, 1890 - 205 páginas Originally published in 1890 as part of the "Great Writers" series. Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum and also wrote biographies of Carlyle, Emerson, Gibbon and Coleridge. |
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... truth which it included . England's literature was , in many respects , very imperfect and chaotic . Her " singing masons " had already built her " roofs of gold " ; Hooker and one or two other great prose - writers stood like towers ...
... truth which it included . England's literature was , in many respects , very imperfect and chaotic . Her " singing masons " had already built her " roofs of gold " ; Hooker and one or two other great prose - writers stood like towers ...
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... truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear , Than some more timely - happy spirits indu'th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that ...
... truth , That I to manhood am arrived so near ; And inward ripeness doth much less appear , Than some more timely - happy spirits indu'th . Yet be it less or more , or soon or slow , It shall be still in strictest measure even To that ...
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... truth nor art nor pathos in the poem , for all these things are inconsistent with the intro- duction of a shepherd of souls in the character of a shepherd of sheep . A nineteenth - century reader , it may be hoped , finds no more ...
... truth nor art nor pathos in the poem , for all these things are inconsistent with the intro- duction of a shepherd of souls in the character of a shepherd of sheep . A nineteenth - century reader , it may be hoped , finds no more ...
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... truth in Coleridge's observation that music always had a greater attraction for Milton than plastic art . After two months ' stay in Rome , Milton proceeded to Naples , whence , after two months ' residence , he was recalled by tidings ...
... truth in Coleridge's observation that music always had a greater attraction for Milton than plastic art . After two months ' stay in Rome , Milton proceeded to Naples , whence , after two months ' residence , he was recalled by tidings ...
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... truth and tenderness , surpassing " Lycidas , " though void of the varied music and exquisite felicities which could not well be present in the conventionalized idiom of a modern Latin poet . The most pathetic passage is that in which ...
... truth and tenderness , surpassing " Lycidas , " though void of the varied music and exquisite felicities which could not well be present in the conventionalized idiom of a modern Latin poet . The most pathetic passage is that in which ...
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Página 103 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 31 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 167 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 160 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Página 126 - LAWRENCE ! of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining ? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily' and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun.
Página 165 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 116 - 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 100 - 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.
Página 131 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is .holy and sublime, in, virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness, to point out and describe.
Página 52 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.