English Prose Writings of John MiltonG. Routledge and sons, 1889 - 446 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... Heaven , of immortality , but my Muse rises as yet on very slender pinions ; let us be humbly wise . " When the time came for leaving college , Milton felt himself to be shut out from the service of the Church , 18 INTRODUCTION .
... Heaven , of immortality , but my Muse rises as yet on very slender pinions ; let us be humbly wise . " When the time came for leaving college , Milton felt himself to be shut out from the service of the Church , 18 INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 37
... his friend Diodati of his dream of immortality , of wings too tender for a lofty flight , and said , Let us be humbly wise . In the same letter to his bosom friend there was also this passage : - " As INTRODUCTION . 37.
... his friend Diodati of his dream of immortality , of wings too tender for a lofty flight , and said , Let us be humbly wise . In the same letter to his bosom friend there was also this passage : - " As INTRODUCTION . 37.
Pagina 46
... wise home counsel in aid of her troubled inexperience . She was kept from her husband ; and when Milton sent for her , his servant was sent back by her unwise parents with insult . How unwise the father was his | 46 INTRODUCTION .
... wise home counsel in aid of her troubled inexperience . She was kept from her husband ; and when Milton sent for her , his servant was sent back by her unwise parents with insult . How unwise the father was his | 46 INTRODUCTION .
Pagina 50
... wise By simply meek ; that Suffering for Truth's sake Is Fortitude to highest Victory , And to the faithful Death the gate of Life . Only add Deeds to thy Knowledge answerable : add Faith , Add Virtue , Patience , Temperance ; add Love ...
... wise By simply meek ; that Suffering for Truth's sake Is Fortitude to highest Victory , And to the faithful Death the gate of Life . Only add Deeds to thy Knowledge answerable : add Faith , Add Virtue , Patience , Temperance ; add Love ...
Pagina 54
... wise , and unexaminable intention of Christ in what he went with resolution to do , so provoked by his interruption the meek Lord , that he threatened to exclude him from his heavenly portion unless he could be content to be less ...
... wise , and unexaminable intention of Christ in what he went with resolution to do , so provoked by his interruption the meek Lord , that he threatened to exclude him from his heavenly portion unless he could be content to be less ...
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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.