Milton, Man and ThinkerL. Macveagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 363 pagina's |
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Pagina xv
... also a high opinion of man . In the divorce pamphlets as well as in the letter on edu- 1 Records of Shelley , Byron , and the Author ( London , 1878 ) , p . 215 . cation , in politics as well as in religion , INTRODUCTION XV.
... also a high opinion of man . In the divorce pamphlets as well as in the letter on edu- 1 Records of Shelley , Byron , and the Author ( London , 1878 ) , p . 215 . cation , in politics as well as in religion , INTRODUCTION XV.
Pagina 11
... pamphlet in favor of toleration , he excluded Catholicism from it " as being idolatrous , . . not to be tolerated , either in public or in private . " 18 This attitude is all the more characteristic as on many points , as we shall see ...
... pamphlet in favor of toleration , he excluded Catholicism from it " as being idolatrous , . . not to be tolerated , either in public or in private . " 18 This attitude is all the more characteristic as on many points , as we shall see ...
Pagina 13
... pamphlets , too , on several occasions , he records his promise to do great things yet in literature , without so much as mentioning his early poems . Yet in the history of Milton's ideas , these poems give us a very solid starting ...
... pamphlets , too , on several occasions , he records his promise to do great things yet in literature , without so much as mentioning his early poems . Yet in the history of Milton's ideas , these poems give us a very solid starting ...
Pagina 23
... pamphlets on the Parliamentary side ; leaving alone for the time being the political question , he had joined with his whole soul in the struggle against the Bishops . Milton's pamphlets must not be looked upon as litera- ture , but as ...
... pamphlets on the Parliamentary side ; leaving alone for the time being the political question , he had joined with his whole soul in the struggle against the Bishops . Milton's pamphlets must not be looked upon as litera- ture , but as ...
Pagina 28
... pamphlets have been judged as literature and found wanting . That is a complete error . They are deeds , and must be judged as such . He 8 Prose Works , II , 481-82 . adapted his form to the end in view , which 28 MILTON : MAN AND THINKER.
... pamphlets have been judged as literature and found wanting . That is a complete error . They are deeds , and must be judged as such . He 8 Prose Works , II , 481-82 . adapted his form to the end in view , which 28 MILTON : MAN AND THINKER.
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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...