The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men, and Books, Sects, Parties, and Opinions; with Amyntor; Or a Defense of Milton's Life; and Various Notes Now Added. London, Printed for I. Darby, 1699Reprinted for A. Millar, 1761 - 259 Seiten |
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... hand Jehovah's wonders were in Ifrael fhown , His praise and glory was in Ifrael known . In his feventeenth year he wrote a handsom сору of verfes on the death of a fifter's child that dy'd of a cough ; and the fame year a Latin elegy ...
... hand Jehovah's wonders were in Ifrael fhown , His praise and glory was in Ifrael known . In his feventeenth year he wrote a handsom сору of verfes on the death of a fifter's child that dy'd of a cough ; and the fame year a Latin elegy ...
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... hand " in hand , O nations , never to be difunited . Be " the praise and the heroic fong of all pofterity . " Merit this ; but feek only virtue , not to extend your limits for what need you win a fading " triumphant laurel out of the ...
... hand " in hand , O nations , never to be difunited . Be " the praise and the heroic fong of all pofterity . " Merit this ; but feek only virtue , not to extend your limits for what need you win a fading " triumphant laurel out of the ...
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... hand of blind chance , " has drawn down to this present in her huge 66 dragnet , whether fifh or feaweed , fhells or " fhrubs , unpick'd , unchofen , thofe are the fa- " thers . " And fo he chides the good bifhop for divulging useless ...
... hand of blind chance , " has drawn down to this present in her huge 66 dragnet , whether fifh or feaweed , fhells or " fhrubs , unpick'd , unchofen , thofe are the fa- " thers . " And fo he chides the good bifhop for divulging useless ...
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... fhould he exercife his manu- " facture as little as they do their talents , he would forget his art or fhould he mistake his tools as they do theirs , he would mar all the work he " took " took in hand . How few among them that 30 ...
... fhould he exercife his manu- " facture as little as they do their talents , he would forget his art or fhould he mistake his tools as they do theirs , he would mar all the work he " took " took in hand . How few among them that 30 ...
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... hand . How few among them that know " how to write or speak in a pure stile , much less 66 С ( 6 66 66 to diftinguish the ideas and various kind of " ftile ! In Latin barbarous , and oft not without " folccifms , declaming in rugged and ...
... hand . How few among them that know " how to write or speak in a pure stile , much less 66 С ( 6 66 66 to diftinguish the ideas and various kind of " ftile ! In Latin barbarous , and oft not without " folccifms , declaming in rugged and ...
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affert againſt alfo alſo ANGLESEY anſwer apoftles becauſe befides beſt biſhop BLACKHALL cauſe CHARLES the fecond Chriftians church confiderable defence defign defire difcourfe divine duke of York Ecclef England Epiftle faid fame father fays fcripture fecret feen felf felves fent ferve feve feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome foon friends ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer GAUDEN gofpels greateſt Hæref Hift hiftory himſelf houfe houſe huſband Icon Bafilike infert JOHN MILTON king CHARLES king's laft laſt learned lefs letters liberty licenfing likewife lord majefty mention'd MILTON minifters moft moſt muſt never Obfervations oblig'd occafion opinion paffage parliament perfons pieces pleas'd prefent prince printed proteftants publiſhing purpoſe quarto reaſon receiv'd religion SALMASIUS ſay ſeveral ſhall Smectymnuus ſpeak thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thought thro tion true univerfal uſe wherin whofe write
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Seite 120 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Seite 45 - 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.
Seite 106 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Seite 119 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 31 - I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets, whereof the schools are not scarce, whom both for the pleasing sound of their numerous writing, which in imitation I found most easy, and most agreeable to nature's part in me, and for their matter, which what it is, there be few who know not, I was so allured to read, that no recreation came to me better welcome...
Seite 22 - God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Seite 119 - Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go, To make a third she joined the former two.
Seite 237 - ... upon my misery with thine eye of mercy, and let thine infinite power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me, as to thee shall seem most convenient.
Seite 32 - I deplored; and above them all, preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honor of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression.
Seite 120 - 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.