The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 pagina's |
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Pagina 92
... equal sublimity of Eternity : Æternæque moræ stabunt immobilis ævi . The eternal pause of age for ever fix'd . The poem which he wrote about this time , ( 1628 , ) for one of the Fellows of his college , on the subject of the unimpaired ...
... equal sublimity of Eternity : Æternæque moræ stabunt immobilis ævi . The eternal pause of age for ever fix'd . The poem which he wrote about this time , ( 1628 , ) for one of the Fellows of his college , on the subject of the unimpaired ...
Pagina 103
... equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the " Tempest , " or the " Midsummer's Night's Dream , " a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this ...
... equal or with nearly equal power and effect . If we admit in the " Tempest , " or the " Midsummer's Night's Dream , " a higher flight of the inventive faculty , we must al- low a less interrupted stretch of it in the Comus . In this ...
Pagina 109
... equal to what precedes and what follows them ; and to make an Apostle speak with exultation of the ap- proaching punishment of a bishop by the hand of the executioner must certainly be censured as improper and indecorous . But ...
... equal to what precedes and what follows them ; and to make an Apostle speak with exultation of the ap- proaching punishment of a bishop by the hand of the executioner must certainly be censured as improper and indecorous . But ...
Pagina 121
... equal space : the impression made by it on the imagination is to be felt , and not explained . Although these poems obtained some early notice , the number of their admirers was for a long time small . Even from the wits of our Augustan ...
... equal space : the impression made by it on the imagination is to be felt , and not explained . Although these poems obtained some early notice , the number of their admirers was for a long time small . Even from the wits of our Augustan ...
Pagina 137
... equal to the three . Græcia Mæonidem , jactet sibi Roma Maronem ; Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem . SELVAGGI . Greece ! vaunt your Homer's ; Rome ! your Maro's fame : England in Milton boasts an equal name . 2 The Sebeto , a small ...
... equal to the three . Græcia Mæonidem , jactet sibi Roma Maronem ; Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem . SELVAGGI . Greece ! vaunt your Homer's ; Rome ! your Maro's fame : England in Milton boasts an equal name . 2 The Sebeto , a small ...
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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?