John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... reference to his boyhood : " My father destined me from a child to the pursuits of literature ; and my appetite for knowledge was so voracious , that , from twelve years of age , I hardly ever left my studies or went to bed before ...
... reference to his boyhood : " My father destined me from a child to the pursuits of literature ; and my appetite for knowledge was so voracious , that , from twelve years of age , I hardly ever left my studies or went to bed before ...
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... reference to a master - piece of genius , such as the Comus ? " It was presented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord Presi- dent of Wales , in 1634 , and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgwater's sons and ...
... reference to a master - piece of genius , such as the Comus ? " It was presented at Ludlow , then the residence of the Lord Presi- dent of Wales , in 1634 , and had the honour of being acted by the Earl of Bridgwater's sons and ...
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... reference , as containing the first disclosure which remains to us of the aspiration to an immortality of fame which Milton so early and so prophetically entertained . The letter is in Latin , and the passage referred to is to the ...
... reference , as containing the first disclosure which remains to us of the aspiration to an immortality of fame which Milton so early and so prophetically entertained . The letter is in Latin , and the passage referred to is to the ...
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... reference to the bishops of that age : - " It was not episcopacy that wrought in them the hea- venly fortitude of martyrdom , as little is it that martyrdom can make good episcopacy ; but it was episcopacy that led the good and holy men ...
... reference to the bishops of that age : - " It was not episcopacy that wrought in them the hea- venly fortitude of martyrdom , as little is it that martyrdom can make good episcopacy ; but it was episcopacy that led the good and holy men ...
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... references to Ignatius , Poly- carp , Polycrates , Irenæus , Tertullian , and Clement of Alex- andria , that their testimonies were inconsistent with each other , and utterly insufficient to establish the facts for which * Prose Works ...
... references to Ignatius , Poly- carp , Polycrates , Irenæus , Tertullian , and Clement of Alex- andria , that their testimonies were inconsistent with each other , and utterly insufficient to establish the facts for which * Prose Works ...
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Página 111 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 12 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving : Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell...
Página 180 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 181 - Purification in the 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...
Página 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 121 - 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...
Página 136 - 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.
Página 120 - That virtue, therefore, which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
Página 123 - ... 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 would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.