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Pagina ii
... merits of your poem to my judgment , you confer on me as great an honour as the Gods would if the contending mufical immortals had called me in to adjudge the palm of vic- 6 99 tory ; tory ; as poets babble that it formerly fell to ii.
... merits of your poem to my judgment , you confer on me as great an honour as the Gods would if the contending mufical immortals had called me in to adjudge the palm of vic- 6 99 tory ; tory ; as poets babble that it formerly fell to ii.
Pagina xiv
... honour on account of his compliance . On this occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language ... honoured me with fingular and memorable proofs of their civility and friendship , yet on fo fhort an acquaintance I know ...
... honour on account of his compliance . On this occafion I have employed the Latin rather than your own language ... honoured me with fingular and memorable proofs of their civility and friendship , yet on fo fhort an acquaintance I know ...
Pagina xvi
... honour , rank me I beseech you , for the future , wherever I may be , among those who are moft attached to you and to the ftudies in which you are engaged . Florence , March 30 , 1639 . X. To CAROLO DEODATI , a Florentine Noble . I ...
... honour , rank me I beseech you , for the future , wherever I may be , among those who are moft attached to you and to the ftudies in which you are engaged . Florence , March 30 , 1639 . X. To CAROLO DEODATI , a Florentine Noble . I ...
Pagina xx
... honours . For if Alexander the Great , when waging war in the distant Eaft , de- clared that he encountered fo many dangers and fo many trials for the fake of having his praifes celebrated by the Athenians , ought not I to congratulate ...
... honours . For if Alexander the Great , when waging war in the distant Eaft , de- clared that he encountered fo many dangers and fo many trials for the fake of having his praifes celebrated by the Athenians , ought not I to congratulate ...
Pagina 4
... honour from God , to be the first that fhould fet up a fiandard for the recovery of loft truth , and blow the first evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up , as from a hill , the new lamp of faving light to all christendom ...
... honour from God , to be the first that fhould fet up a fiandard for the recovery of loft truth , and blow the first evangelic trumpet to the nations , holding up , as from a hill , the new lamp of faving light to all christendom ...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 John Milton,Charles Symmons Volledige weergave - 1806 |
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 John Milton,Charles Symmons Volledige weergave - 1806 |
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 John Milton,Charles Symmons Volledige weergave - 1806 |
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Pagina 279 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Pagina 121 - 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 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Pagina 287 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Pagina 288 - 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. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Pagina 297 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Pagina 322 - 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 mid-day beam...
Pagina 275 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Pagina 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Pagina 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.