Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by A. MackieLongmans, Green & Company, 1884 - 179 páginas |
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... thoughts of poetry were driven out of Milton's mind by the dismal outlook ; he was whirled into politics , and for twenty years ... thought of . Some , however , advocated a limited Episcopacy , while others insisted on a Presbyterian re ...
... thoughts of poetry were driven out of Milton's mind by the dismal outlook ; he was whirled into politics , and for twenty years ... thought of . Some , however , advocated a limited Episcopacy , while others insisted on a Presbyterian re ...
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... thought fit to make him the * Johnson , Dr. Samuel ( 1709-1784 ) -one of the most famous literary men of the Eighteenth Century . He wrote the first English Dictionary ; edited a periodical called the ' Rambler , ' & c . The work in ...
... thought fit to make him the * Johnson , Dr. Samuel ( 1709-1784 ) -one of the most famous literary men of the Eighteenth Century . He wrote the first English Dictionary ; edited a periodical called the ' Rambler , ' & c . The work in ...
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... thought on those dramatic pro- prieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , 10 as every one else must have failed . We ...
... thought on those dramatic pro- prieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , 10 as every one else must have failed . We ...
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... thought of 15 taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage , the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
... thought of 15 taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage , the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to ...
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... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the sun 25 the worship which , speculatively , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the sun 25 the worship which , speculatively , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
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Página 63 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 84 - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high-embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Página xxii - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Página 75 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life. If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them.
Página 76 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 75 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier 10 hand.
Página 75 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 62 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.
Página 77 - Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them.
Página 75 - If their steps were not accompanied by a splendid train of menials, legions of ministering angels had charge over them. Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away...