John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical Principles of that Illustrious ManA. Cockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at heaven's door Look in , and see each blissful deity ; How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , --- Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings To the touch of 10 JOHN MILTON .
... mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at heaven's door Look in , and see each blissful deity ; How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , --- Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings To the touch of 10 JOHN MILTON .
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... heaven's defiance mustering all his waves ; Then sing of secret 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 ...
... heaven's defiance mustering all his waves ; Then sing of secret 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 ...
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... heaven's defiance mustering all his waves ; Then sing of secret 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 ...
... heaven's defiance mustering all his waves ; Then sing of secret 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 ...
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... Heaven . All is , if I have grace to use it so , As ever in my great Task - master's eye . In the beginning of the year 1629 , Milton took his bachelor's degree , and , in due course , proceeded to that of master of arts , when he ...
... Heaven . All is , if I have grace to use it so , As ever in my great Task - master's eye . In the beginning of the year 1629 , Milton took his bachelor's degree , and , in due course , proceeded to that of master of arts , when he ...
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... Heaven , To adorn the bard and judge the strain be given , Whene'er my Muse shall sound the British strings , And wake again to song her native kings : Hail her great Arthur ! who , from mortals far , Now pants for his return , and ...
... Heaven , To adorn the bard and judge the strain be given , Whene'er my Muse shall sound the British strings , And wake again to song her native kings : Hail her great Arthur ! who , from mortals far , Now pants for his return , and ...
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Página 109 - 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 33 - 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 30 - 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 34 - 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 27 - 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 127 - 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 43 - 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 117 - 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 25 - 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 111 - 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.