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Pagina xii
... father's house , at the sign of the Spread Eagle , Bread Street , London , at half - past six in the morning of Dec. 9th , 1608. The laborious researches of Mr. Masson have added but little to our knowledge of his ancestry . The name ...
... father's house , at the sign of the Spread Eagle , Bread Street , London , at half - past six in the morning of Dec. 9th , 1608. The laborious researches of Mr. Masson have added but little to our knowledge of his ancestry . The name ...
Pagina xiii
... father that delicate sense of harmony , which is strongly displayed in all his poetry ; and that love of music , to which he often refers in his writings , and which solaced many dark and weary hours of his later life . The parish ...
... father that delicate sense of harmony , which is strongly displayed in all his poetry ; and that love of music , to which he often refers in his writings , and which solaced many dark and weary hours of his later life . The parish ...
Pagina xv
... father , as though with a presentiment of the future greatness of his son , had his portrait painted by Cornelius Jansen , the most eminent artist of his day . This portrait , which still exists , * shows a child with a simple and ...
... father , as though with a presentiment of the future greatness of his son , had his portrait painted by Cornelius Jansen , the most eminent artist of his day . This portrait , which still exists , * shows a child with a simple and ...
Pagina xvi
... father ordered the maid to sit up for him . " We have no precise indication of the age at which Young ceased to be tutor to the boy - poet : it was certainly prior to the year 1623 , when , at the age of fifteen , Milton entered St ...
... father ordered the maid to sit up for him . " We have no precise indication of the age at which Young ceased to be tutor to the boy - poet : it was certainly prior to the year 1623 , when , at the age of fifteen , Milton entered St ...
Pagina xx
... father from his earliest years . Whilst at the university , however , his views gradually changed . A very interesting letter , written in 1631-2 , about a year before he took his degree of Master of Arts , gives us the first intimation ...
... father from his earliest years . Whilst at the university , however , his views gradually changed . A very interesting letter , written in 1631-2 , about a year before he took his degree of Master of Arts , gives us the first intimation ...
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Pagina li - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Pagina 103 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Pagina 247 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Pagina 269 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Pagina 261 - ... Peace be to this house. 6 And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Pagina 47 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Pagina 49 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Pagina 296 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Pagina 258 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Pagina 84 - 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...