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Pagina 25
frontispiece is engraved , is of a bust , in the possession of Dr. Disney , which was
modelled from my author immediately after he had completed his “ Defence of the
People of England ; ” and the fac - simile is of the writing of that great man , in ...
frontispiece is engraved , is of a bust , in the possession of Dr. Disney , which was
modelled from my author immediately after he had completed his “ Defence of the
People of England ; ” and the fac - simile is of the writing of that great man , in ...
Pagina 31
On the plan and the execution of my work , it would not be my wish , if I
possessed the power to influence the determination of the reader . It has been my
object to present to him as complete a view of the subject , of which I have
undertaken to ...
On the plan and the execution of my work , it would not be my wish , if I
possessed the power to influence the determination of the reader . It has been my
object to present to him as complete a view of the subject , of which I have
undertaken to ...
Pagina 40
The dead , indeed , are at rest froin their labours ; and , far from the reach of
human malice , are in possession of their reward : but it is discouraging to the
weakness of the living , and consequently calculated to diminish the incentives to
...
The dead , indeed , are at rest froin their labours ; and , far from the reach of
human malice , are in possession of their reward : but it is discouraging to the
weakness of the living , and consequently calculated to diminish the incentives to
...
Pagina 42
Of the family of Milton nothing more is known than that it was respectable and
antient ; long resident at Milton ' in Oxfordshire , and possessed of property which
it lost in the wars between the rival houses of York and Lancaster . The fortune ...
Of the family of Milton nothing more is known than that it was respectable and
antient ; long resident at Milton ' in Oxfordshire , and possessed of property which
it lost in the wars between the rival houses of York and Lancaster . The fortune ...
Pagina 52
A powerful intellect , exerted with unwearied industry and undiverted attention ,
must necessarily possess itself of its object ; and we know thąt our author , when
he left this school in his seventeenth year for the University ,. p Alexander Gill
was ...
A powerful intellect , exerted with unwearied industry and undiverted attention ,
must necessarily possess itself of its object ; and we know thąt our author , when
he left this school in his seventeenth year for the University ,. p Alexander Gill
was ...
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Pagina 161 - 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 212 - 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...
Pagina 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Pagina 293 - 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.
Pagina 406 - 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. Her face was...
Pagina 519 - 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 196 - 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...
Pagina 264 - 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...
Pagina 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Pagina 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Life of John Milton |
| Auteur | Charles Symmons |
| Editie | 2 |
| Uitgever | Nichols and Son, 1810 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of California |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 24 okt 2007 |
| Lengte | 646 pagina's |
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