Prose Works of John MiltonJ.B. Alden, 1885 - 486 pages |
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Page 48
... noble achieve- ments made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics . Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing ...
... noble achieve- ments made small by the unskilful handling of monks and mechanics . Time serves not now , and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing ...
Page 56
... noble degree of honest shame , or , call it , if you will , an esteem , whereby men bear an inward reverence toward their own persons . And if the love of God , as a fire sent from heaven to be ever kept alive upon the altars of our ...
... noble degree of honest shame , or , call it , if you will , an esteem , whereby men bear an inward reverence toward their own persons . And if the love of God , as a fire sent from heaven to be ever kept alive upon the altars of our ...
Page 61
... noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may with the jawbone of an ass ...
... noble strength and perfec- tion with those his illustrious and sunny locks , the laws , waving and curling about his godlike shoul- ders . And while he keeps them about him undi- minished and unshorn , he may with the jawbone of an ass ...
Page 81
... noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many wor- thies , by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . And if I found in the story after- ward , any of them , by word or deed , breaking that oath , I ...
... noble virtue chastity sure must be , to the defence of which so many wor- thies , by such a dear adventure of themselves , had sworn . And if I found in the story after- ward , any of them , by word or deed , breaking that oath , I ...
Page 89
... noble deeds , the unfinishing whereof already surpasses what others before them have left enacted with their utmost performance through many ages . And to the end we may be confident that what they do proceeds neither from uncertain ...
... noble deeds , the unfinishing whereof already surpasses what others before them have left enacted with their utmost performance through many ages . And to the end we may be confident that what they do proceeds neither from uncertain ...
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