The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 |
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Page i
... write you an epiftle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- felf without fending alfo another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly inspire , are too expanfive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
... write you an epiftle in verse , yet I could not fatisfy my- felf without fending alfo another in profe . For the emotions of my gratitude , which your fervices fo juftly inspire , are too expanfive and too warm to be expreffed in the ...
Page iv
... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- sure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
... writing to me fooner ; for though nothing gives me more plea- sure than to hear from you , how can I or ought I to ex- pect that ... write ? Your many recent fer- vices muft prevent me from entertaining any fufpicion of your vices iv.
Page v
... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . IF you had made me a prefent of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
... write a few lines , however de- ficient in elegance , than to fay nothing at all . Cambridge , July 21 , 1628 . Adieu , reverend fir . V. To ALEXANDER GILL . IF you had made me a prefent of a piece of plate , or any other valuable which ...
Page vi
... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other fhould ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
... write firft . Though , if the reasons which make each of us fo long in writing to the other fhould ever be judicially examined , it will ap- pear that I have many more excufes for not writing than you . For it is well known , and you ...
Page vii
... write letters , or go abroad ; but it is my way to fuffer no impedi- ment , no love of eafe , no avocation whatever , to chill the ardour , to break the continuity , or divert the com- pletion of my literary pursuits . From this and no ...
... write letters , or go abroad ; but it is my way to fuffer no impedi- ment , no love of eafe , no avocation whatever , to chill the ardour , to break the continuity , or divert the com- pletion of my literary pursuits . From this and no ...
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Page 325 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 300 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 186 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 277 - 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 278 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Page 324 - 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 112 - And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was "destroyed of nation, and city of city : for God did vex them with all adversity.
Page 290 - 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 123 - 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 299 - 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.