The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page vii
... These are my reafons for expoftulation and cenfure . You will look to your own defence . But what can occafion your filence ? Is it ill - health ? Are there in those parts any literati with whom you may play and prattle as we ufed to do ...
... These are my reafons for expoftulation and cenfure . You will look to your own defence . But what can occafion your filence ? Is it ill - health ? Are there in those parts any literati with whom you may play and prattle as we ufed to do ...
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... these prelates had fought a further reformation ) that the leaft wry face of a politician would not have hushed them ? But it will be faid , these men were martyrs what then ? though every true Chriftian will be a martyr when he is ...
... these prelates had fought a further reformation ) that the leaft wry face of a politician would not have hushed them ? But it will be faid , these men were martyrs what then ? though every true Chriftian will be a martyr when he is ...
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... these perhaps were the chief impeachments of a more found rectifying the church in the queen's time . From this period I count to begin our times , which because they concern us more nearly , and our own eyes and ears can give us the ...
... these perhaps were the chief impeachments of a more found rectifying the church in the queen's time . From this period I count to begin our times , which because they concern us more nearly , and our own eyes and ears can give us the ...
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... these times : and in another place , " they gape after poffeffions , they tend lands and livings , they cower over their gold , they buy and fell : and if there be any that neither poffefs nor traffic , that which is worse , they fit ...
... these times : and in another place , " they gape after poffeffions , they tend lands and livings , they cower over their gold , they buy and fell : and if there be any that neither poffefs nor traffic , that which is worse , they fit ...
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... these in time , but equal in fame , following the fcope of his poem in a difficult knot how to reftore Orlando his chief hero to his loft fenfes , brings Aftolfo the English knight up into the moon , where St. John , as he feigns , met ...
... these in time , but equal in fame , following the fcope of his poem in a difficult knot how to reftore Orlando his chief hero to his loft fenfes , brings Aftolfo the English knight up into the moon , where St. John , as he feigns , met ...
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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.
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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...
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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.