Essay on MiltonAllyn and Bacon, 1895 - 66 páginas |
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... ancient classics whose every word is precious . The reader of English must reach the end of the chapter . Infinite other chapters await his eager attention . Hence the English reader must learn to recognize and set aside what is ...
... ancient classics whose every word is precious . The reader of English must reach the end of the chapter . Infinite other chapters await his eager attention . Hence the English reader must learn to recognize and set aside what is ...
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... ancient languages are always read with the help of notes , and books in the ancient languages have accordingly ceased to be read except by a caste of special devotees whose work in Introduction . xiii.
... ancient languages are always read with the help of notes , and books in the ancient languages have accordingly ceased to be read except by a caste of special devotees whose work in Introduction . xiii.
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... ancients . Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible ...
... ancients . Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible ...
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... ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilized community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements ...
... ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilized community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements ...
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... ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor , indeed , do we think his classical diction ...
... ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor , indeed , do we think his classical diction ...
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Página 58 - ... the zeal with which he labored for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which he so sternly kept with his country and with his fame.
Página 7 - Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees.
Página xv - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell.
Página 66 - The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Página 36 - We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates ; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Eight, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning...
Página 17 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Página 57 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.
Página 16 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Página 26 - a land of darkness,' as darkness itself, and where the light was as darkness. The gloom of his character discolours all the passions of men and all the face of Nature, and tinges with its own livid hue the flowers of Paradise and the glories of the eternal throne.
Página 39 - ... appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she...