The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings, Հատոր 1S. Andrus & Son, 1848 |
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... less an inward prompting , which now grew daily upon me , that , by labour and intense study ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) I might , perhaps , leave something so written to after - times as they should not willingly ...
... less an inward prompting , which now grew daily upon me , that , by labour and intense study ( which I take to be my portion in this life , ) I might , perhaps , leave something so written to after - times as they should not willingly ...
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... less prejudiced than his antago- nists and his admirers ( to one or other of which classes all his biographers hitherto have belonged , ) Milton does not seem to have enriched himself with any considerable share of vi MEMOIR OF JOHN MILTON ...
... less prejudiced than his antago- nists and his admirers ( to one or other of which classes all his biographers hitherto have belonged , ) Milton does not seem to have enriched himself with any considerable share of vi MEMOIR OF JOHN MILTON ...
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... Europe ring from side to side , " and only less formidable than those of Cromwell's mailed hand in the battle - fields of Great Britain and Ireland , laying on deadlier strokes than poet's pen or patriot's wrath MEMOIR OF JOHN MILTON . vii.
... Europe ring from side to side , " and only less formidable than those of Cromwell's mailed hand in the battle - fields of Great Britain and Ireland , laying on deadlier strokes than poet's pen or patriot's wrath MEMOIR OF JOHN MILTON . vii.
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... less than his verse . Bespeaking pardon for his egotism , he says— " Although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might , without apology , speak more of himself than I ...
... less than his verse . Bespeaking pardon for his egotism , he says— " Although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might , without apology , speak more of himself than I ...
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... less . than ten lines the chippings and dust of a diamond , in the process of polishing it to perfection ! Thus had he early learned the precious " art to blot ; " and resolutely he exercised it , proving , by this single example , if ...
... less . than ten lines the chippings and dust of a diamond , in the process of polishing it to perfection ! Thus had he early learned the precious " art to blot ; " and resolutely he exercised it , proving , by this single example , if ...
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Էջ xviii - stated, it was not till Milton had fought his way through middle life, in state controversies—when old, and blind, and poor, his genius, at length (to accommodate a magnificent figure of his own,) " mewing," like "an eagle, her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam
Էջ 225 - And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works: Creator him they sung, Both when first evening was, and when first morn. "Again, God said, 'Let there be firmament Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters ;' and God made The firmament, expanse of liquid pure, Transparent, elemental air, diffused
Էջ 65 - reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then : Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : Yet with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
Էջ 118 - Mozambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell, old Ocean smiles. So entertain'd those odorous sweets the fiend, Who came their bane : though with them better pleased Than
Էջ 33 - With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Էջ xxxii - poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her
Էջ xxxvi - (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute. And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Էջ xxxii - or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Էջ 65 - forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhœan rage, more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind ; hell scarce holds the wild uproar. As when Alcides, from Œchalia
Էջ 396 - Is fortitude to highest victory; And to the faithful, death the gate of life ; Taught this by his example, whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest." To whom thus also the angel last replied : "This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom ; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou