Milton, Man and ThinkerL. Macveagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 363 pagina's |
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... living in a Puritan age and siding with Puritanism in almost all the questions at issue be- tween it and contending tendencies , can hardly be taken for anything but a Puritan . . It requires study to discover that , like the great ...
... living in a Puritan age and siding with Puritanism in almost all the questions at issue be- tween it and contending tendencies , can hardly be taken for anything but a Puritan . . It requires study to discover that , like the great ...
Pagina 8
... living soul . No other poet has been so close to a feeling of Nature's fecundity , and , as we shall see later , this conception has a high philosophical importance in Milton's subsequent work . " Already in his In Adventum Veris ( 1629 ) ...
... living soul . No other poet has been so close to a feeling of Nature's fecundity , and , as we shall see later , this conception has a high philosophical importance in Milton's subsequent work . " Already in his In Adventum Veris ( 1629 ) ...
Pagina 45
... living , I cannot think how , unless by divine indulgence , proved to me so many incitements , as you have heard , to the love and steadfast observation of that virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes . • Thus , from the laureat ...
... living , I cannot think how , unless by divine indulgence , proved to me so many incitements , as you have heard , to the love and steadfast observation of that virtue which abhors the society of bordelloes . • Thus , from the laureat ...
Pagina 53
... living soul bound to a dead corpse ; a punishment too like that in- flicted by the tyrant Mezentius , so little worthy to be received as that remedy of loneliness which God meant us : Since we know it is not the joining of another body ...
... living soul bound to a dead corpse ; a punishment too like that in- flicted by the tyrant Mezentius , so little worthy to be received as that remedy of loneliness which God meant us : Since we know it is not the joining of another body ...
Pagina 59
... living work Milton pro- duced in prose - if we are willing to skip over the waste places . The man , the thinker , the poet are visible and active under the polemist . Milton first addresses Parliament , with a hope of get- ting into ...
... living work Milton pro- duced in prose - if we are willing to skip over the waste places . The man , the thinker , the poet are visible and active under the polemist . Milton first addresses Parliament , with a hope of get- ting into ...
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Pagina 184 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Pagina 74 - ... 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.
Pagina 263 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Pagina 77 - 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 253 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Pagina 76 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Pagina 215 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Pagina 292 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? 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. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed...
Pagina 214 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Pagina 215 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who...