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Pagina 45
... poet , we should h Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with ...
... poet , we should h Aubrey , who is usually distinguished by the title of the Antiquarian , is the author of " Monumenta Britannica , " and of a MS . Life of Milton , preserved in the Mus . Ash . Oxon . He was personally acquainted with ...
Pagina 47
... We may imagine with what pleasure a father would read the fol- lowing elegant compliment to his own pecu- liar talent from the pen of his accomplished and poetic son : : Nec tu perge , precor , sacras contemnere Musas LIFE OF MILTON . 47 .
... We may imagine with what pleasure a father would read the fol- lowing elegant compliment to his own pecu- liar talent from the pen of his accomplished and poetic son : : Nec tu perge , precor , sacras contemnere Musas LIFE OF MILTON . 47 .
Pagina 51
... poetic merit . after this period , we find him engaged in controversy , as one of the writers of the pamphlet called Smectymnuus , against bishop Hall and archbishop Usher . He was a preacher at Duke's Place , and was nominated one of ...
... poetic merit . after this period , we find him engaged in controversy , as one of the writers of the pamphlet called Smectymnuus , against bishop Hall and archbishop Usher . He was a preacher at Duke's Place , and was nominated one of ...
Pagina 55
... poet . " His " ( our author's ) first tutor there , " ( at Cambridge ) Mr. Chappell , from whom receiving some unkindness , ( whipt him , ) he was afterwards , though it seemed against the rules of the col- lege , transferred to the ...
... poet . " His " ( our author's ) first tutor there , " ( at Cambridge ) Mr. Chappell , from whom receiving some unkindness , ( whipt him , ) he was afterwards , though it seemed against the rules of the col- lege , transferred to the ...
Pagina 58
... . " - " Hōc erat in votis . " My friend , Dr. Parr , however , has sug- gested that , hoc , is to be found short in the comic poets ; and ?? k Non ego vel profugi nomen sortemque recuso Lætus et exilii 58 LIFE OF MILTON .
... . " - " Hōc erat in votis . " My friend , Dr. Parr , however , has sug- gested that , hoc , is to be found short in the comic poets ; and ?? k Non ego vel profugi nomen sortemque recuso Lætus et exilii 58 LIFE OF MILTON .
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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...