Eikonoklastēs, in answer to a book [by J. Gauden] intitled, Eikōn basilikē, with many enlargements, by R. Baron, with a preface, to which is added, an original letter to Milton1770 |
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Page 25 - alive, With whom my foul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night; 1 thank my God for my humility. Other fluff of this fort may be read throughout the whole tragedy, wherein the poet ufed not much licence in departing from the truth
Page 281 - to bind their kings in chains, and their nobles with links of Iron," is an honour belonging to his faints ; not to build Babel, (which was Nimrod's work, the firft king, and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,) but to
Page 283 - when God flew them, then fought him ;" yet did but ** flatter him with their mouth, and lyed to him with their tongues ; for their heart was not right with him." And there was one, who in the time of his
Page 232 - for I have tranfgrefled the commandment of the Lord} yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people. " And when Ahab heard the words of Elijah, he rent his clothes, and put fackcloth upon his flefh and fafted, and
Page 9 - deeds, the reft, imbaftardized from the ancient noblenefs of their anceftors, are ready to fall flat and give adoration to the image and memory of this man, who hath offered at more cunning fetches to undermine our liberties, and put tyranny into an art, than any
Page 25 - of this nature both ancient and modern which abound, the poets alfo, and fome Englifh, have been in this point fo mindful of decorum, as to put never more pious words in the mouth of any perfon, than of a tyrant.
Page 81 - may ftoop and take up the reward* What that freedom is, which " cannot be denied him as a king, becaufe it belongs to him as a man and a chriftian," I underftand not. If it be his negative voice, it concludes all men who have not fuch a negative as his againft a whole
Page 263 - proceedings, though briefly, in regard fo much on this fubject hath been written lately. It happened once, as we find in Efdras and Jofephus, authors not lefs believed than any under facred, to be a great and folemn debate in the court of Darius, what thing was to be counted
Page 132 - it to himfelf. But he, contrary to what is here profefled, would have his confcience not an incommunicable, but a univerfal confcience, the whole kingdom's confcience. . Thus what he feems to fear left we fhould ravifh from him, is our chief complaint that he obtruded upon us ; we never forced him to part with his
Page 167 - by the fending of his free fpirit to inhabit in us, is not now to depend upon the doubtful confent of any earthly monarch : nor to be again fettered with a prefumptuous negative voice, tyrannical to the parliament, but much more tyrannical to the Church of God ; which was compelled to implore the aid