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Pagina 9
... church of which I am a member : but neither of these charges can touch me with the irritation of a feather , as they are repelled by the evidence of my work , of my con- nexions , and of the uniform tenor of my writ- ings and my conduct ...
... church of which I am a member : but neither of these charges can touch me with the irritation of a feather , as they are repelled by the evidence of my work , of my con- nexions , and of the uniform tenor of my writ- ings and my conduct ...
Pagina 54
... church , and for this reason also he would be the more anxious decidedly to incline him with the bias of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened ...
... church , and for this reason also he would be the more anxious decidedly to incline him with the bias of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened ...
Pagina 75
... church ; and we are assured , by more than one passage in his own works , that he looked with no friendly eye either on the plan of education observed in the University , or on the learning and the conduct of its members . We may con ...
... church ; and we are assured , by more than one passage in his own works , that he looked with no friendly eye either on the plan of education observed in the University , or on the learning and the conduct of its members . We may con ...
Pagina 93
... church for reasons which , hallowed by conscience , are entitled to our respect , the attainment of a common fellowship , to be held only for a very limited term , could not be among the objects of his life . The com- petence also , of ...
... church for reasons which , hallowed by conscience , are entitled to our respect , the attainment of a common fellowship , to be held only for a very limited term , could not be among the objects of his life . The com- petence also , of ...
Pagina 109
... church of England and me- nacing their leader with the axe , should be permitted to issue from the University press . The speech indeed , assigned to St. Peter- The pilot of the Galilean lake . may properly be regarded as the most objec ...
... church of England and me- nacing their leader with the axe , should be permitted to issue from the University press . The speech indeed , assigned to St. Peter- The pilot of the Galilean lake . may properly be regarded as the most objec ...
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Pagina 252 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Pagina 151 - 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 hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pagina 389 - CVRIAC, 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.
Pagina 394 - 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.
Pagina 151 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 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...
Pagina 507 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pagina 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Pagina 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Pagina 254 - 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Pagina 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...