Poetical Works: Biography of Milton |
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ing fire shut up in my bones ; I was weary with forbearing , and could not stay . i : “
Which might teach these times not suddenly to condemn all things that are
sharply spoken or vehemently written as proceeding out of stomach virulence
and ill ...
ing fire shut up in my bones ; I was weary with forbearing , and could not stay . i : “
Which might teach these times not suddenly to condemn all things that are
sharply spoken or vehemently written as proceeding out of stomach virulence
and ill ...
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... mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal
thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit , to venture and indulge
unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort , it may not be envy to
me .
... mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal
thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit , to venture and indulge
unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort , it may not be envy to
me .
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But why do I mention these things as performed by the people , which almost
open their voice themselves , and testify the presence of God throughout ? who ,
as often as it seems good to his infinite wisdom , uses to throw down proud and ...
But why do I mention these things as performed by the people , which almost
open their voice themselves , and testify the presence of God throughout ? who ,
as often as it seems good to his infinite wisdom , uses to throw down proud and ...
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Nor blame it , readers , in those years to propose to themselves such a reward ,
as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes
preferred : whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet ,
argues ...
Nor blame it , readers , in those years to propose to themselves such a reward ,
as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes
preferred : whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet ,
argues ...
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Let us contemplate Milton while such things were the rage . He had now
withdrawn himself from the angry and harsh contests in which he had been so
many years engaged , and was contemplating battles , a thousand - fold more
exalted , of ...
Let us contemplate Milton while such things were the rage . He had now
withdrawn himself from the angry and harsh contests in which he had been so
many years engaged , and was contemplating battles , a thousand - fold more
exalted , of ...
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Էջ 210 - Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Էջ 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Էջ 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Էջ 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Էջ 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Էջ 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Էջ 95 - ... 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,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Էջ 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Էջ 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Էջ 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
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| Վերնագիր | Poetical Works: Biography of Milton Հատոր 1 of Poetical Works, Joseph Mallord William Turner |
| Հեղինակ | John Milton |
| Editor | Sir Egerton Brydges |
| Նկարիչ | Joseph Mallord William Turner |
| Հրատարակիչ | John Macrone, 1835 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 13 Սեպտեմբեր 2006 |
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