John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... things that came to pass When beldam Nature in her cradle was ; And last of kings , and queens , and heroes old , Such as the wise Demodocus once told In solemn songs at King Alcinous ' feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul , and all the ...
... things that came to pass When beldam Nature in her cradle was ; And last of kings , and queens , and heroes old , Such as the wise Demodocus once told In solemn songs at King Alcinous ' feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul , and all the ...
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... things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high raised phantasy present That undisturbed song of pure concent Aye sung before the sapphire - coloured throne , To Him that sits thereon , With saintly shout and solemn ...
... things with inbreathed sense able to pierce , And to our high raised phantasy present That undisturbed song of pure concent Aye sung before the sapphire - coloured throne , To Him that sits thereon , With saintly shout and solemn ...
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... things that friends in absence wish one to another . " In his " Second Defense , " published twelve years after the " Apology for Smectymnuus , " he again asserts the purity of his college life ; and affirms , in opposition to his ...
... things that friends in absence wish one to another . " In his " Second Defense , " published twelve years after the " Apology for Smectymnuus , " he again asserts the purity of his college life ; and affirms , in opposition to his ...
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... things upon the gay and melancholy temper , or upon the same man as he is differently disposed ; but rather , how among the successive variety of appearances every disposition of mind takes hold on those by which it may be gratified ...
... things upon the gay and melancholy temper , or upon the same man as he is differently disposed ; but rather , how among the successive variety of appearances every disposition of mind takes hold on those by which it may be gratified ...
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... things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect . That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens , Rome , or modern Italy , and those Hebrews of old did for their country , I , in my proportion , with ...
... things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect . That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens , Rome , or modern Italy , and those Hebrews of old did for their country , I , in my proportion , with ...
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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.