Essay on MiltonAllyn and Bacon, 1895 - 66 páginas |
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... freedom of movement as choice and consultation of them necessarily imply . It assumes , moreover , pleasant and free relations with the larger libraries outside the schoolroom that all American com- munities are rapidly coming to ...
... freedom of movement as choice and consultation of them necessarily imply . It assumes , moreover , pleasant and free relations with the larger libraries outside the schoolroom that all American com- munities are rapidly coming to ...
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... freedom as if Latin were his mother - tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity ...
... freedom as if Latin were his mother - tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great felicity ...
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... freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel : " About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth of ...
... freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel : " About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth of ...
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... freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forests , which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thousand ...
... freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forests , which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thousand ...
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... freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbi- trary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted im- prisonments were grievances of daily occurrence . If these things do not justify resistance , the Revolution ...
... freedom of debate ; the right of petition was grossly violated ; arbi- trary judgments , exorbitant fines , and unwarranted im- prisonments were grievances of daily occurrence . If these things do not justify resistance , the Revolution ...
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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...