English Prose Writings of John MiltonG. Routledge and sons, 1889 - 446 pagina's |
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Pagina 24
... command Is Farth and Earth's , and in their hand Is Nature like an open book . No longer half akin to brute , For all we thought and loved and did , And hoped and suffered , is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit . " It was the ...
... command Is Farth and Earth's , and in their hand Is Nature like an open book . No longer half akin to brute , For all we thought and loved and did , And hoped and suffered , is but seed Of what in them is flower and fruit . " It was the ...
Pagina 66
... command as it were a tyranny . " Stay but a little , magnanimous bishops ; suppress your aspiring thoughts , for there is nothing wanting but Constantine to reign , and then tyranny herself shall give up all her citadels into your hands ...
... command as it were a tyranny . " Stay but a little , magnanimous bishops ; suppress your aspiring thoughts , for there is nothing wanting but Constantine to reign , and then tyranny herself shall give up all her citadels into your hands ...
Pagina 74
... commands ambiguous and obscure : we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly such commands were no commands , but snares . The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The ...
... commands ambiguous and obscure : we should think he had a plot upon us ; certainly such commands were no commands , but snares . The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness ; the darkness and crookedness is our own . The ...
Pagina 81
... command . Upon which their carnal desires , the spirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolstering and supporting their inward rottenness by a carnal and outward ...
... command . Upon which their carnal desires , the spirit daily quenching and dying in them , knew no way to keep themselves up from falling to nothing , but by bolstering and supporting their inward rottenness by a carnal and outward ...
Pagina 97
... command in the ministry ! Thus then we see that our ecclesiastical and political choices may consent and sort as well together without any rupture in the State , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to ...
... command in the ministry ! Thus then we see that our ecclesiastical and political choices may consent and sort as well together without any rupture in the State , as Christians and freeholders . But as for honour , that ought indeed to ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 314 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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.
Pagina 128 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Pagina 353 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates : proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any who have the Power, to call to Account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due Conviction, to depose, and put him to Death, if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.
Pagina 323 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Pagina 314 - For 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 118 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Pagina 184 - Hail wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Pagina 50 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Pagina 10 - 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. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on...
Pagina 299 - First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.