Milton on Education, the Tractate Of EducationYale University Press, 1928 - 369 pages |
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... give to their author a very high place among English writers . Of all Milton's pamphlets , the Tractate Of Education perhaps least owes its occasion to the urgency of political events , and most spontaneously grows out of his natural ...
... give to their author a very high place among English writers . Of all Milton's pamphlets , the Tractate Of Education perhaps least owes its occasion to the urgency of political events , and most spontaneously grows out of his natural ...
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... gives is not chron- ologically exact . We probably may assume that Milton classified his works as he did , in order the better to defend himself against calumny by making clear the public spirit of all his writings . The Tractate , then ...
... gives is not chron- ologically exact . We probably may assume that Milton classified his works as he did , in order the better to defend himself against calumny by making clear the public spirit of all his writings . The Tractate , then ...
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... give up the hope of educational reform , Hartlib nearly two years later applied to Milton as the English- \ man of whom he expected most - a man of eminent attainments , and already known as a writer on current affairs , and one , more ...
... give up the hope of educational reform , Hartlib nearly two years later applied to Milton as the English- \ man of whom he expected most - a man of eminent attainments , and already known as a writer on current affairs , and one , more ...
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... gives " for Tho . Dring at the Blew Anchor next Mitre Court over against Fetter Lane in Fleet - street , 1673 , " as if Dring had changed his premises in the course of the year . ' Masson , Life of Milton 6. 687 . 4 Milton , Of ...
... gives " for Tho . Dring at the Blew Anchor next Mitre Court over against Fetter Lane in Fleet - street , 1673 , " as if Dring had changed his premises in the course of the year . ' Masson , Life of Milton 6. 687 . 4 Milton , Of ...
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... give a prominent place to reading . Each writer sketches a curriculum that is encyclopædic in extent ; the two curricula coincide in many details - notably in the study of nature . " Each describes in outline an ideal academy , and the ...
... give a prominent place to reading . Each writer sketches a curriculum that is encyclopædic in extent ; the two curricula coincide in many details - notably in the study of nature . " Each describes in outline an ideal academy , and the ...
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Page 133 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 248 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Page 134 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek...
Page 134 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Page 90 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave, something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 87 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 161 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 274 - I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Page 106 - Cyriack, this three-years' day these eyes, though clear To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 161 - 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.