John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 páginas |
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... . South , a bitter enemy of Milton , in a Sermon from Eccl . vii . 10- “ Say not thou , what is the cause that the former days were better than these ? " 66 The Lycidas has been the subject of a contest 24 JOHN MILTON .
... . South , a bitter enemy of Milton , in a Sermon from Eccl . vii . 10- “ Say not thou , what is the cause that the former days were better than these ? " 66 The Lycidas has been the subject of a contest 24 JOHN MILTON .
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... says Johnson , " there is no nature , for there is no truth : there is no art , for there is nothing new . Its form ... say , Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known its author . " Sir ...
... says Johnson , " there is no nature , for there is no truth : there is no art , for there is nothing new . Its form ... say , Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure , had he not known its author . " Sir ...
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... says , " in a dead language , is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which else- where may be found in healthful and spontaneous per- fection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are , in D general ...
... says , " in a dead language , is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which else- where may be found in healthful and spontaneous per- fection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are , in D general ...
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... say , therefore , " he commences , " that after I had , for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father ( whom God recompense ! ) been exer- cised to the tongues , and some sciences , as my age would suffer , by ...
... say , therefore , " he commences , " that after I had , for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father ( whom God recompense ! ) been exer- cised to the tongues , and some sciences , as my age would suffer , by ...
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... say , made their small deeds great and renowned by their eloquent writers , England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskil- ful handling of monks and mechanics . " Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too pro ...
... say , made their small deeds great and renowned by their eloquent writers , England hath had her noble achievements made small by the unskil- ful handling of monks and mechanics . " Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too pro ...
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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 219 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
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 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 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 26 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 236 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
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 159 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Página 211 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?