The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William HayleyW. Mason, 1810 |
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... manners , and their writings , both the poet and his critical biographer are assuredly entitled to the praise of exalted genius . Perhaps in the republic of letters there never existed two writers more deservedly distin- guished , not ...
... manners , and their writings , both the poet and his critical biographer are assuredly entitled to the praise of exalted genius . Perhaps in the republic of letters there never existed two writers more deservedly distin- guished , not ...
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... manner is , signified many ways how " much better it would content them that " I would stay , as by many letters , full of " kindness and loving respect , both before " that time and long after , I was assured of " their singular ...
... manner is , signified many ways how " much better it would content them that " I would stay , as by many letters , full of " kindness and loving respect , both before " that time and long after , I was assured of " their singular ...
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... manners pure ; Pure as Heaven's minister , array'd in white , Propitiating the gods with lustral rite . In his Elegy on the Spring , our poet expresses the fervent emotions of his fancy in terms , that may be almost regarded as a ...
... manners pure ; Pure as Heaven's minister , array'd in white , Propitiating the gods with lustral rite . In his Elegy on the Spring , our poet expresses the fervent emotions of his fancy in terms , that may be almost regarded as a ...
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... manner of writing , wherein , knowing myself inferior to my- self , led by the genial power of nature to another task , I have the use , as I may ac- .count , but of my left hand . " Prose Works , vol . 1. page 62 . Such is the ...
... manner of writing , wherein , knowing myself inferior to my- self , led by the genial power of nature to another task , I have the use , as I may ac- .count , but of my left hand . " Prose Works , vol . 1. page 62 . Such is the ...
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... manner is , that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there ) met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things , which I had shifted , in scarcity of books and conveniency , to patch up amongst them ...
... manner is , that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there ) met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things , which I had shifted , in scarcity of books and conveniency , to patch up amongst them ...
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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...