John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 pages |
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... little else than a fragment of the history of their times . To those who can appreciate the loftiest intellectual powers , sustained by vast learning , and enriched with the B rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved.
... little else than a fragment of the history of their times . To those who can appreciate the loftiest intellectual powers , sustained by vast learning , and enriched with the B rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved.
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A Biography Cyrus R. Edmonds. rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved of its sternness by the tenderest affections of the heart , it must ever be matter of regret that John Milton is one of those whose intimacy they ...
A Biography Cyrus R. Edmonds. rarest treasures of fancy ; and moral majesty , relieved of its sternness by the tenderest affections of the heart , it must ever be matter of regret that John Milton is one of those whose intimacy they ...
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... majesty in every verse ; while in the very music of such stanzas as the following , there reigns a spirit of silence which is charmingly appropriate , and irresistibly impressive : - No war , or battle's sound , Was heard the world ...
... majesty in every verse ; while in the very music of such stanzas as the following , there reigns a spirit of silence which is charmingly appropriate , and irresistibly impressive : - No war , or battle's sound , Was heard the world ...
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... majesty of Milton , should exhibit this " falling - down - dead- ness of manner " before the little boys and girls of an earl , is certainly contemptible enough . Of the poem itself it is impossible to speak in terms of too high ...
... majesty of Milton , should exhibit this " falling - down - dead- ness of manner " before the little boys and girls of an earl , is certainly contemptible enough . Of the poem itself it is impossible to speak in terms of too high ...
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... majesty , take up that unlimited sceptre which thy Almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee , and all creatures sigh to be renewed ! " * One other passage , written in a different vein , and ...
... majesty , take up that unlimited sceptre which thy Almighty Father hath bequeathed thee ; for now the voice of thy bride calls thee , and all creatures sigh to be renewed ! " * One other passage , written in a different vein , and ...
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Page 111 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 219 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 119 - 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 wayfaring Christian.
Page 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 26 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 236 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Page 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Page 159 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 211 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?