Selected prose writings, with an intr. essay by E. Myers |
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Pagina xxi
... enemies of God . It is to complete our conception of Milton's life and work and genius that some acquaintance with his prose works is needful ; we may say also that without some such conception already derived from his poems we should ...
... enemies of God . It is to complete our conception of Milton's life and work and genius that some acquaintance with his prose works is needful ; we may say also that without some such conception already derived from his poems we should ...
Pagina 12
... enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great Whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelligencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to revenge his naval ruins that ...
... enemies have been consulting all the sorceries of the great Whore , and have joined their plots with that sad intelligencing tyrant that mischiefs the world with his mines of Ophir , and lies thirsting to revenge his naval ruins that ...
Pagina 21
... enemies , and thou ' bewailest . What matters it for thee or thy be- ' wailing ? When time was , thou couldst not find ' a syllable of all that thou hast read or studied to ' utter in her behalf . Yet ease and leisure was given ' thee ...
... enemies , and thou ' bewailest . What matters it for thee or thy be- ' wailing ? When time was , thou couldst not find ' a syllable of all that thou hast read or studied to ' utter in her behalf . Yet ease and leisure was given ' thee ...
Pagina 28
... enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship . Lastly , whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime , in virtue amiable or grave , whatso- ever hath passion or admiration ...
... enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship . Lastly , whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime , in virtue amiable or grave , whatso- ever hath passion or admiration ...
Pagina 35
... enemies ) should come to grasp the sceptre , here were his spearmen and his lances , here were his firelocks ready , he should need no other pretorian band nor pensionary than these , if they could once with their perfidious preachments ...
... enemies ) should come to grasp the sceptre , here were his spearmen and his lances , here were his firelocks ready , he should need no other pretorian band nor pensionary than these , if they could once with their perfidious preachments ...
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ancient AREOPAGITICA Aristotle authority better bishops called cause Christ Christian Christopher Goodman church Cicero civil common peace conscience corruption covenant deed defend deposed divine doctrine Eglon EIKON BASILIKE enemies England English Epicurus episcopacy esteem Euripides evil faith fear free commonwealth give glory God's gospel grace greatest hand hath honour hope judge judgment justice justly king kingdom knowledge labour land learning less liberty licensing living lords and commons magistrates marriage matters ment Milton mind nation nature never noble ofttimes parliament PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND peace perhaps person Plato poet prelates presbyterian princes prose protestant punish Puritanism reason reformation religion Roman saith schisms Scotland scripture shew SMECTYMNUUS Sophocles soul spirit studies taught thee things thou hast thought tion true truth tyranny tyrant virtue whenas wherein whereof whole wisdom wise words write Xenophon
Populaire passages
Pagina 78 - Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. 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.
Pagina 80 - ... grounding their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity, which was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees...
Pagina vii - 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 deny'd to doe it.
Pagina 148 - Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious and propending towards us. Why else was this nation chosen before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclaimed and sounded forth the first tidings and trumpet of reformation to all Europe...
Pagina 146 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Pagina 24 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Pagina 28 - Neither do I think it a shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Pagina 117 - ... our sage and serious poet Spenser, (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas,) describing true temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain.
Pagina 116 - Good and evil, we know, in the field of this world, grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed on Psyche, as an incessant labour to cull out and sort asunder, were not more intermixed.
Pagina 180 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.