Selected prose writings, with an intr. essay by E. Myers |
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Pagina xiii
... leave ad- ministration to the Tudor princes , and even states- men had then been willing to allow the crown unpre- cedented power in order to curb the aggressions of the nobles and of the Roman See . At the end of Elizabeth's reign ...
... leave ad- ministration to the Tudor princes , and even states- men had then been willing to allow the crown unpre- cedented power in order to curb the aggressions of the nobles and of the Roman See . At the end of Elizabeth's reign ...
Pagina xxi
... leave this tone in every voice of his old age . It is the cruel waste , or seeming waste , of his labour , his eyesight , and his hope , in a great cause , which makes his personal utterances in his later poems so unspeak- ably pathetic ...
... leave this tone in every voice of his old age . It is the cruel waste , or seeming waste , of his labour , his eyesight , and his hope , in a great cause , which makes his personal utterances in his later poems so unspeak- ably pathetic ...
Pagina xxiii
... life swept away from the blind champion of liberty , leaving him still and solitary as a heroic statue among the drifted sands of the desert . But it was then that the holy Light arose upon him , and called forth INTRODUCTION xxiii.
... life swept away from the blind champion of liberty , leaving him still and solitary as a heroic statue among the drifted sands of the desert . But it was then that the holy Light arose upon him , and called forth INTRODUCTION xxiii.
Pagina xxiv
... leaving us the monuments of their art . this poet should present himself differently to a reverer's mind points to some distinguishing quality in Milton . It is the quality of strenuous desire to help to create around him a condition of ...
... leaving us the monuments of their art . this poet should present himself differently to a reverer's mind points to some distinguishing quality in Milton . It is the quality of strenuous desire to help to create around him a condition of ...
Pagina 10
... leave these serious thoughts less piously than the heathen were wont to conclude their graver discourses . Thou , therefore , that sittest in light and glory unapproachable , Parent of angels and men ! next , thee I implore , omnipotent ...
... leave these serious thoughts less piously than the heathen were wont to conclude their graver discourses . Thou , therefore , that sittest in light and glory unapproachable , Parent of angels and men ! next , thee I implore , omnipotent ...
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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.