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Pagina 25
... known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply per- But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has enforced the charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one of those supposed ...
... known to the Romans , by applying it as we apply per- But as Nemesis is always on the watch , it is memorable that he has enforced the charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical , when for one of those supposed ...
Pagina 26
... known ; but Milton and his nephew Philips , under whose name he published an answer so much corrected by him that it might be called his own , imputed it to Bramhal ; and , knowing him no friend to regicides , thought themselves at ...
... known ; but Milton and his nephew Philips , under whose name he published an answer so much corrected by him that it might be called his own , imputed it to Bramhal ; and , knowing him no friend to regicides , thought themselves at ...
Pagina 27
... known transformation : " Poma alba ferebat Quæ post nigra tulit morus . " With this piece ended his controversies ; and he from this time gave himself up to his private studies and his civil employment . As secretary to the Protector ...
... known transformation : " Poma alba ferebat Quæ post nigra tulit morus . " With this piece ended his controversies ; and he from this time gave himself up to his private studies and his civil employment . As secretary to the Protector ...
Pagina 28
... known . * To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be consulted by other eyes , is not easy , nor possible but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtained ; and it was probably the difficulty ...
... known . * To compile a history from various authors , when they can only be consulted by other eyes , is not easy , nor possible but with more skilful and attentive help than can be commonly obtained ; and it was probably the difficulty ...
Pagina 32
... known that he had it from Davenant . We are told that the benefit exchanged was life for * It was told before by A. Wood in Ath . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 412 , 2d edit . life ; but it seems not certain that Milton's life. MILTON'S HOUSE IN ...
... known that he had it from Davenant . We are told that the benefit exchanged was life for * It was told before by A. Wood in Ath . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 412 , 2d edit . life ; but it seems not certain that Milton's life. MILTON'S HOUSE IN ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 85 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 21 - 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 141 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 110 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Pagina 195 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Pagina 89 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Pagina 34 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Pagina 205 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pagina 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Pagina 100 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.