The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William Hayley |
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... task , I have the use , as I may ac.count , but of my . left hand . ” ' Prose Works ,
vol . 1. page 62 . Such is the delineation that our author has given us of his own
mind and motives in his treatise on Church Government , which the mention of ...
... task , I have the use , as I may ac.count , but of my . left hand . ” ' Prose Works ,
vol . 1. page 62 . Such is the delineation that our author has given us of his own
mind and motives in his treatise on Church Government , which the mention of ...
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Whenever he is induced to mention himself , the purity and vigor of Milton's mind ,
appear in full lustre , whether he speaks in verse or in prose : the preceding
passage from his Second Defence , is consonant to the sonnet on his blindness ...
Whenever he is induced to mention himself , the purity and vigor of Milton's mind ,
appear in full lustre , whether he speaks in verse or in prose : the preceding
passage from his Second Defence , is consonant to the sonnet on his blindness ...
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Philips ( says Lauder ) every where in his “ Theatrum Poetarum , ' either wholly
passes over in silence such authors as Milton was most obliged to , or , if he
chances to mention them , does it in the most slight and superficial manner ima ...
Philips ( says Lauder ) every where in his “ Theatrum Poetarum , ' either wholly
passes over in silence such authors as Milton was most obliged to , or , if he
chances to mention them , does it in the most slight and superficial manner ima ...
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... it or not , as I have never been so fortunate as to find a copy of Roselli's
composition . Yet the mention of it here , may be useful to future editors of the
English poet . ; now and then shining with pure and united rays of
CONJECTURES . 393.
... it or not , as I have never been so fortunate as to find a copy of Roselli's
composition . Yet the mention of it here , may be useful to future editors of the
English poet . ; now and then shining with pure and united rays of
CONJECTURES . 393.
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The author does not mention Andreini , nor has he any mixture of verse in his
composition ; but , in his address to the reader , he has the following very
remarkable passage ; after suggesting that the Mosaic history of Adam and Eve is
purely ...
The author does not mention Andreini , nor has he any mixture of verse in his
composition ; but , in his address to the reader , he has the following very
remarkable passage ; after suggesting that the Mosaic history of Adam and Eve is
purely ...
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Էջ 84 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Էջ 57 - ... grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Էջ 108 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste frora 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 siren 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 33 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Էջ 104 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Էջ 130 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Էջ 229 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Էջ 104 - ... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
Էջ 56 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Էջ 111 - ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...