The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 pagina's |
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Pagina 100
... character , to give him a lineage and an empire , and to make him the hero of the most exquisite dramatic poem , which , perhaps , the genius of man has ever produced . Among the com- 2 Τὴν γαρ στέγην τήνδ ' ἔποτ ̓ ἐκλέιπει χωρίς ...
... character , to give him a lineage and an empire , and to make him the hero of the most exquisite dramatic poem , which , perhaps , the genius of man has ever produced . Among the com- 2 Τὴν γαρ στέγην τήνδ ' ἔποτ ̓ ἐκλέιπει χωρίς ...
Pagina 102
... character entire . With Milton , from what- ever mine the ore may originally be derived , the coin issues from his mint with his own image and superscription ; and passes into currency with a value peculiar to itself . To speak 102 LIFE ...
... character entire . With Milton , from what- ever mine the ore may originally be derived , the coin issues from his mint with his own image and superscription ; and passes into currency with a value peculiar to itself . To speak 102 LIFE ...
Pagina 107
Charles Symmons. attendant Spirit , and was designed in that piece under the character of Thyrsis- Whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear , his madrigal . C He was retained as a domestic in the earl of ...
Charles Symmons. attendant Spirit , and was designed in that piece under the character of Thyrsis- Whose artful strains have oft delay'd The huddling brook to hear , his madrigal . C He was retained as a domestic in the earl of ...
Pagina 116
... characters upon my in- most senses . Your simplicity , your honour , and your genius ( genius of no common stamp ) are my correspondents , and give me a still stronger impression in your favour . Do not then from your lordly eminence of ...
... characters upon my in- most senses . Your simplicity , your honour , and your genius ( genius of no common stamp ) are my correspondents , and give me a still stronger impression in your favour . Do not then from your lordly eminence of ...
Pagina 118
... character also of these pieces establishes them to be properly and strictly English . Their lineaments and their tints are so specific , and so peculiarly genuine as to prove them to be drawn from the vivid na- ture before the poet's ...
... character also of these pieces establishes them to be properly and strictly English . Their lineaments and their tints are so specific , and so peculiarly genuine as to prove them to be drawn from the vivid na- ture before the poet's ...
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admirable agni Andrew Marvell asserted atque beautiful bishop bosom Brownists cause censure Charles CHARLES SYMMONS church Church of England composition Comus consequence critic Cromwell Damon death Defence Deodati discovered divine domino jam domum impasti edition England English enim etiam fame fancy father favour genius hæc hand hath honour immediately ipse Isaac Vossius Italy jam non vacat King Latin Lauder learned letter liberty literary Long Parliament Lycidas malè ment merit mihi Milton mind Morus Muse neque nihil nunc object occasion opinion panegyric Paradise Lost Parliament party passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry possessed praise prelate present quæ quam quid quis quod quoque racter reader regard remark respect Salmasius says seems sibi sonnet speak spirit tamen taste thing thou tibi tion translation truth verse virtue Warton writer
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Pagina 161 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Pagina 212 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Pagina 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Pagina 293 - 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 406 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 519 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pagina 196 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Pagina 264 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Pagina 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Pagina 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?