The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volumen7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was favoured with his regard , cannot be without value in my ...
... virtues , the sources of much of my past happiness , I am indebted for all my present consolation , I inscribe THIS LIFE OF MILTON ; which , as it grew under his eye , and was favoured with his regard , cannot be without value in my ...
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... virtue or the intel- lect , which we are contemplating , be a spring , gushing immediately from the bosom of the earth , or a reservoir , ( if the allusion may be permitted , ) formed and supported by a long continued stream . Of the ...
... virtue or the intel- lect , which we are contemplating , be a spring , gushing immediately from the bosom of the earth , or a reservoir , ( if the allusion may be permitted , ) formed and supported by a long continued stream . Of the ...
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... virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but he seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and ...
... virtue were preferable to worldly pleasure and grandeur : but he seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and ...
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... virtue strong , Derides the menace of your reptile throng . But he could only calculate the contin- gencies , not fasten his sight ( if the expression may be allowed to me ) on the realities of fu- turity . If some minister of the ...
... virtue strong , Derides the menace of your reptile throng . But he could only calculate the contin- gencies , not fasten his sight ( if the expression may be allowed to me ) on the realities of fu- turity . If some minister of the ...
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... virtues . Nor , should you happen to omit writing , would you be without a substitute in that office . Your integrity writes to me in your stead , and inscribes its deep characters upon my in- most senses . Your simplicity , your honour ...
... virtues . Nor , should you happen to omit writing , would you be without a substitute in that office . Your integrity writes to me in your stead , and inscribes its deep characters upon my in- most senses . Your simplicity , your honour ...
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Página 70 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 159 - 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 240 - 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 341 - Death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Página 210 - 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 midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Página 336 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 38 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 143 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 109 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the...
Página 428 - The punishment of dissolute days : in fine, Just or unjust, alike seem miserable, For oft alike both come to evil end.