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Page 279 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 121 - 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 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Page 288 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 297 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
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Page 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Page 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
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| Title | The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1 Volume 1 of The Prose Works of John Milton, Charles Symmons The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Charles Symmons Volume 1 of The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Interspersed with Translations and Critical Remarks, Charles Symmons |
| Authors | John Milton, Charles Symmons |
| Editor | Charles Symmons |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1806 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
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