The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page ii
... received your defirable prefent of the Hebrew Bible . I wrote this at my lodgings in the city , not as ufual , furrounded by my books . If therefore there be any thing in this letter which either fails to give pleafure , or which ...
... received your defirable prefent of the Hebrew Bible . I wrote this at my lodgings in the city , not as ufual , furrounded by my books . If therefore there be any thing in this letter which either fails to give pleafure , or which ...
Page x
... received their liberty from Rodolphus king of Germany . From that time it will be better to read feparately the particu- lar tranfactions of each ftate . But how are you em- ployed ? How long will you attend to your domeftic ties and ...
... received their liberty from Rodolphus king of Germany . From that time it will be better to read feparately the particu- lar tranfactions of each ftate . But how are you em- ployed ? How long will you attend to your domeftic ties and ...
Page xiv
... received me with the utmost affability and kindness . You afterwards obligingly admitted me into the Museum , you permitted me to fee the precious repofitory of literature , and many Greek MSS . adorned with your own obfer- vations ...
... received me with the utmost affability and kindness . You afterwards obligingly admitted me into the Museum , you permitted me to fee the precious repofitory of literature , and many Greek MSS . adorned with your own obfer- vations ...
Page xvii
... received my poem on that occafion . I had it carefully fent , that whatever poetical merit it might poffefs , the few verses which are included in the manner of an emblem , might afford no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought ...
... received my poem on that occafion . I had it carefully fent , that whatever poetical merit it might poffefs , the few verses which are included in the manner of an emblem , might afford no doubtful proof of my love for you . I thought ...
Page xix
... received on the 17th of December , I will firft explain the reafons why I did not write before , that you may not impute to me the blame of a filence which has fo long continued . First , the delay was occafioned by ill - health , whofe ...
... received on the 17th of December , I will firft explain the reafons why I did not write before , that you may not impute to me the blame of a filence which has fo long continued . First , the delay was occafioned by ill - health , whofe ...
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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.