The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page iv
... never left your company without an increase of knowledge , and always had recourse to your mind as to an emporium of literature . Among us , as far as I know , there are only two or three , who , without any acquaint- ance with ...
... never left your company without an increase of knowledge , and always had recourse to your mind as to an emporium of literature . Among us , as far as I know , there are only two or three , who , without any acquaint- ance with ...
Page vi
... never be read . Adieu , and expect to fee me , God willing , at London on Monday among the bookfellers . In the mean time , if you have intereft enough with that Doctor who is the mafter of the college to promote my bufinefs , I beseech ...
... never be read . Adieu , and expect to fee me , God willing , at London on Monday among the bookfellers . In the mean time , if you have intereft enough with that Doctor who is the mafter of the college to promote my bufinefs , I beseech ...
Page xii
... never heard of any people or ftate which has not flourished in fome degree of profperity as long as their language has re- tained its elegance and its purity . Hence , my Bene- ditto , you may be induced to proceed in executing a work ...
... never heard of any people or ftate which has not flourished in fome degree of profperity as long as their language has re- tained its elegance and its purity . Hence , my Bene- ditto , you may be induced to proceed in executing a work ...
Page xiv
... never yet feen the light , but feem , like the spirits in Virgil , In a green valley the pent spirits lay , Impatient to behold the realms of day , to demand the parturient labours of the prefs . Some of them you have already published ...
... never yet feen the light , but feem , like the spirits in Virgil , In a green valley the pent spirits lay , Impatient to behold the realms of day , to demand the parturient labours of the prefs . Some of them you have already published ...
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... never my delight , but this unexpected conteft with the enemies of liberty has involuntarily withdrawn my attention from very different and more pleasurable purfuits . What I have done , and which I was under an obligation to do , I ...
... never my delight , but this unexpected conteft with the enemies of liberty has involuntarily withdrawn my attention from very different and more pleasurable purfuits . What I have done , and which I was under an obligation to do , I ...
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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.
Page 287 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
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.
Page 322 - 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 mid-day beam...
Page 275 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
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.