The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 pages |
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... seems to be increasing with the hour , every man , who can arrange a common sen- tence , is invited , with the helmet . of Orcus on his head , to assume the office of a critic , and thus to pass sentence on the merits , if not on the ...
... seems to be increasing with the hour , every man , who can arrange a common sen- tence , is invited , with the helmet . of Orcus on his head , to assume the office of a critic , and thus to pass sentence on the merits , if not on the ...
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... seem to extend their crimination to his general merits as a writer , I have not persuaded myself to omit : and if it be a crime in me , with the fullest sense of the great powers of his mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style ...
... seem to extend their crimination to his general merits as a writer , I have not persuaded myself to omit : and if it be a crime in me , with the fullest sense of the great powers of his mind , to regard him as a corrupter of our style ...
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... seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in ...
... seems to justify that indignation which would brand , again and again , the hand lifted in violation of the illustrious dead . The dead , indeed , are at rest from their labours ; and , far from the reach of human malice , are in ...
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... seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his proficiency in the science of music ' that it entitled him to ho ... seems on this occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally ...
... seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his proficiency in the science of music ' that it entitled him to ho ... seems on this occasion to be the prefer- able authority , affirms that she was a Caston , of a family originally ...
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... seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and closed in the coun- try a life of study and devotion . His only sister ...
... seems to have been also , as he is represented in another account , 66 a man of no parts or ability . " In his old age he retired from the fatigues of business , and closed in the coun- try a life of study and devotion . His only sister ...
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Page 161 - 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.
Page 212 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 263 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 293 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 406 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 519 - 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.
Page 196 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 264 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Page 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
Page 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?