The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William Hayley |
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Rival to him , whose pen , to nature true , The life of Homer eloquently drew ! If
the two Latin verses , in which this amiable old man expressed his admiration of
the young English bard , deserve the name of a “ sorry distich , ” which Johnson ...
Rival to him , whose pen , to nature true , The life of Homer eloquently drew ! If
the two Latin verses , in which this amiable old man expressed his admiration of
the young English bard , deserve the name of a “ sorry distich , ” which Johnson ...
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Cowley , Waller , Denham , Dryden , Prior , Pope , in comparison with Milton ,
have borne no greater proportion , than that of dwarfs to a giant , who , now he is
reduced to his true standard , appears mortal and uninspired , and in ability little ...
Cowley , Waller , Denham , Dryden , Prior , Pope , in comparison with Milton ,
have borne no greater proportion , than that of dwarfs to a giant , who , now he is
reduced to his true standard , appears mortal and uninspired , and in ability little ...
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that the primary motive , which prompted him to the assistance of Lauder , was
that true and noble compassion for indigence , which made him through life so
generously willing to afford all the aid in his power to literary mendicants ; but in ...
that the primary motive , which prompted him to the assistance of Lauder , was
that true and noble compassion for indigence , which made him through life so
generously willing to afford all the aid in his power to literary mendicants ; but in ...
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It should afford us an antidote against the poison of party rage in all literary
discussions , to observe , that by indulging it , a very strong and a very devout
mind was hurried into the want of clear and moral perception , and of true
christian ...
It should afford us an antidote against the poison of party rage in all literary
discussions , to observe , that by indulging it , a very strong and a very devout
mind was hurried into the want of clear and moral perception , and of true
christian ...
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It was by entertaining ideas of poetry , directly contrary to those of his critic , that
Milton rendered himself , in true dignity , the first poet of the world . Nor can we
think that dignity in any degree impaired , by discovering that many hints might be
...
It was by entertaining ideas of poetry , directly contrary to those of his critic , that
Milton rendered himself , in true dignity , the first poet of the world . Nor can we
think that dignity in any degree impaired , by discovering that many hints might be
...
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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...
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| Վերնագիր | The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William Hayley Հատոր 1 of Cowper's Milton, in Four Volumes, William Cowper |
| Հեղինակ | William Hayley |
| Հրատարակիչ | W. Mason, 1810 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 26 Օգոստոս 2006 |
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