Selected prose writings, with an intr. essay by E. Myers |
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Pagina xxiv
... thou shouldst be living at this hour ! ' Such is Wordsworth's invocation to the man then more than a century dead , now more than two centuries ; and I know not if any other poet has been invoked in like manner . We think of poets ...
... thou shouldst be living at this hour ! ' Such is Wordsworth's invocation to the man then more than a century dead , now more than two centuries ; and I know not if any other poet has been invoked in like manner . We think of poets ...
Pagina xxvii
... thou com- ' mon . ' Perhaps we may be again entering on a pro- saic age , though through somewhat different causes . In the eighteenth century there was doubtless a reaction after the failure of ideal aspirations . Now there is a ...
... thou com- ' mon . ' Perhaps we may be again entering on a pro- saic age , though through somewhat different causes . In the eighteenth century there was doubtless a reaction after the failure of ideal aspirations . Now there is a ...
Pagina 10
... thou didst assume , ineffable and everlasting Love ! and thou , the third subsistence of divine infinitude , illumining Spirit , the joy and solace of created things ! one tri- personal Godhead ! look upon this thy poor and almost spent ...
... thou didst assume , ineffable and everlasting Love ! and thou , the third subsistence of divine infinitude , illumining Spirit , the joy and solace of created things ! one tri- personal Godhead ! look upon this thy poor and almost spent ...
Pagina 11
... thou that after the impetuous rage of five bloody inundations , and the succeeding sword of intestine war , soaking the land in her own gore , didst pity the sad and ceaseless revolution of our swift and thick - coming sorrows ; when we ...
... thou that after the impetuous rage of five bloody inundations , and the succeeding sword of intestine war , soaking the land in her own gore , didst pity the sad and ceaseless revolution of our swift and thick - coming sorrows ; when we ...
Pagina 12
... thou hast but freed us , and that not fully , from the unjust and tyrannous claim of thy foes ; now unite us entirely and appropriate us to thyself , tie us everlastingly in willing homage to the prerogative of thy eternal throne . And ...
... thou hast but freed us , and that not fully , from the unjust and tyrannous claim of thy foes ; now unite us entirely and appropriate us to thyself , tie us everlastingly in willing homage to the prerogative of thy eternal throne . And ...
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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.