The Age of MiltonG. Bell, 1897 - 254 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... passed through a series of mutations with respect to which previous history and national experience afforded but little guidance and no parallel . The royal power , wielded with so much dignity by the last of the Tudors , was ...
... passed through a series of mutations with respect to which previous history and national experience afforded but little guidance and no parallel . The royal power , wielded with so much dignity by the last of the Tudors , was ...
Pagina xx
... passing into tameness , ingenuity into forced conceits , and elegance into insipidity . And notwithstanding the defects which undoubtedly characterize this English school fashioning itself on the literature across the Channel , it is ...
... passing into tameness , ingenuity into forced conceits , and elegance into insipidity . And notwithstanding the defects which undoubtedly characterize this English school fashioning itself on the literature across the Channel , it is ...
Pagina 3
... passed through several editions in rapid succession . Its scriptural basis secured for it a welcome in Puritan households , and as the publisher's office was in Bread Street , an early copy would certainly find its way to the Spread ...
... passed through several editions in rapid succession . Its scriptural basis secured for it a welcome in Puritan households , and as the publisher's office was in Bread Street , an early copy would certainly find its way to the Spread ...
Pagina 14
... passed to the retirement of a Devonshire village , not from years of study , but from years of indulgence , if not of debauchery , among the wits of the ' Apollo . ' He who would write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to ...
... passed to the retirement of a Devonshire village , not from years of study , but from years of indulgence , if not of debauchery , among the wits of the ' Apollo . ' He who would write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to ...
Pagina 20
... passed current as wit , and lewd verses as poetry . Every argument for indulgence urged by Comus may be found in the loose verses of the period , framed on the models of French or Italian love - songs . It is noteworthy that in ...
... passed current as wit , and lewd verses as poetry . Every argument for indulgence urged by Comus may be found in the loose verses of the period , framed on the models of French or Italian love - songs . It is noteworthy that in ...
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Pagina 23 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Pagina 50 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Pagina 114 - My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense; But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Pagina 58 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Pagina 23 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Pagina 9 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so,. As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
Pagina 111 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they, By all thy...
Pagina 124 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
Pagina 101 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Pagina 24 - ... from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood. Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray ; He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...