John Milton: A Biography, Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical Principles of that Illustrious Man |
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... have most powerfully influenced the destinies of their own age and all
succeeding generations. It was amidst the stormiest periods of Grecian history
that we find those historians, orators, statesmen, and generals, who at once
rescued their ...
... have most powerfully influenced the destinies of their own age and all
succeeding generations. It was amidst the stormiest periods of Grecian history
that we find those historians, orators, statesmen, and generals, who at once
rescued their ...
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In his prose writings , indeed , he never affected a pedantic conformity to the
classic models , though in Latin verse his resemblance to them was at once so
close and so natural , that Mr . Macaulay justly applies to him a tasteful criticism
on ...
In his prose writings , indeed , he never affected a pedantic conformity to the
classic models , though in Latin verse his resemblance to them was at once so
close and so natural , that Mr . Macaulay justly applies to him a tasteful criticism
on ...
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... Such as the wise Demodocus once told In solemn songs at King Alcinous '
feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul , and all the rest , Are held , with his melodious
harmony , In willing chains and sweet captivity . Two years afterwards he
produced his ...
... Such as the wise Demodocus once told In solemn songs at King Alcinous '
feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul , and all the rest , Are held , with his melodious
harmony , In willing chains and sweet captivity . Two years afterwards he
produced his ...
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He once described it in conversation as “Nature laid out;" and when alluding to
the scarcity of wood in the neighbourhood, and having been reminded of the
willows which abound there, characteristically replied, “Yes, Sir, Nature holding
out ...
He once described it in conversation as “Nature laid out;" and when alluding to
the scarcity of wood in the neighbourhood, and having been reminded of the
willows which abound there, characteristically replied, “Yes, Sir, Nature holding
out ...
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The eulogy pronounced upon it by Dr. Symmons, is at once enthusiastic and
discriminate: “Among the compositions of our own country,” he says, “it certainly
stands unrivalled for its affluence in poetic imagery and diction; and, as an effort
of ...
The eulogy pronounced upon it by Dr. Symmons, is at once enthusiastic and
discriminate: “Among the compositions of our own country,” he says, “it certainly
stands unrivalled for its affluence in poetic imagery and diction; and, as an effort
of ...
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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 43 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 40 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 44 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 37 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Página 53 - Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 35 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | John Milton: A Biography, Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical Principles of that Illustrious Man |
| Autor | Cyrus R. Edmonds |
| Editor | A. Cockshaw, 1851 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 16 Mayo 2005 |
| Largo | 251 páginas |
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