Milton's Familiar LettersE. Littell, 1829 - 120 páginas |
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... you bear yourself as a monarch , and command obedience . I therefore must congratu- late you , and give you double thanks as my friend and physician . I looked for your promised letter long since , but MILTON'S LETTERS . 29.
... you bear yourself as a monarch , and command obedience . I therefore must congratu- late you , and give you double thanks as my friend and physician . I looked for your promised letter long since , but MILTON'S LETTERS . 29.
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... give them liberty . Others , already published under your superinten- dence , are eagerly received by the learned every where . I am indebted to you for a present of these works , and for two copies of one of them . And I cannot but ...
... give them liberty . Others , already published under your superinten- dence , are eagerly received by the learned every where . I am indebted to you for a present of these works , and for two copies of one of them . And I cannot but ...
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... give me very little encouragement to hope that it can be accom- plished at present . Nothing can be transcribed , nor even a line written in that library , without per- mission first obtained . They tell me , however , that John Baptist ...
... give me very little encouragement to hope that it can be accom- plished at present . Nothing can be transcribed , nor even a line written in that library , without per- mission first obtained . They tell me , however , that John Baptist ...
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... give friendship the ascendency . But when I come to the paragraph in which you state that you have written three letters , which I know must be lost , my sincere pleasure is infected and disturbed by sad regret . Then a still more ...
... give friendship the ascendency . But when I come to the paragraph in which you state that you have written three letters , which I know must be lost , my sincere pleasure is infected and disturbed by sad regret . Then a still more ...
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... give you . " 3 I suppose this urgent matter is the same alluded to in the state letter quoted above , where an apology is made to Count Oldenburgh for the detention of Mill , whose solicitations were daily and earnest , with all the ...
... give you . " 3 I suppose this urgent matter is the same alluded to in the state letter quoted above , where an apology is made to Count Oldenburgh for the detention of Mill , whose solicitations were daily and earnest , with all the ...
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accomplished addressed admire afterwards ALEXANDER GILL ancient answer anxious Archbishop Usher Athens authors Barberini believe Bonmatthei Ceres church compliments congratulate correspondence Council Count Oldenburgh Dati defence Defensio desire Diodati Dr Johnson edition Elector of Brandenburgh elegy engagements England English estimation excellent eyes father favour fear Florence folio Francini frequently friendship Geneva Greek HENRY OLDENBURGH historian honourable hope Italian Italian grammar kind labour language Latin learned sir lest literary London Long Parliament lost Louis XIV Lycidas mind Muses obscure opinion Paradise Regained pastor perceive PETER HEIMBACH Petrarch Phineus pleasure praise promise published pupil of Milton received your letter reply respecting RICHARD JONES Rome Sallust seems sight soon St Paul's school Stadtholder studies Telephus ther things THOMAS YOUNG thought tion translated truly Turretin virtue virtuous WESTMINSTER Wherefore whilst willingly wish worthy write wrote Young
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Página 64 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 4 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Página 31 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 93 - 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...
Página 32 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Página 111 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Página 111 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you 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 66 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades.
Página 49 - And useless powers, by whom inspired, thyself Art skilful to associate verse with airs Harmonious, and to give the human voice A thousand modulations, heir by right Indisputable of Arion's fame. Now say, what wonder is it, if a son Of thine delight in verse, if, so conjoin'd In close affinity, we sympathize In social arts and kindred studies sweet ? Such distribution of himself to us Was Phoebus...
Página 70 - So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.