Milton on Education, the Tractate Of EducationYale University Press, 1928 - 369 pages |
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Page 28
... Song of Lewes.1 But Leicester , Sidney , and Raleigh were friends and patrons of the poet Spenser , who fashioned his British hero upon the moral virtues of Aristotle and Plato . Medieval ' Protestantism ' had its English martyrs among ...
... Song of Lewes.1 But Leicester , Sidney , and Raleigh were friends and patrons of the poet Spenser , who fashioned his British hero upon the moral virtues of Aristotle and Plato . Medieval ' Protestantism ' had its English martyrs among ...
Page 75
... songs at King Alcinous ' feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul and all the rest Are held with his melodious harmony , In willing chains and sweet captivity.1 From a Letter to Alexander Gill [ the younger - one of Milton's teachers at St ...
... songs at King Alcinous ' feast , While sad Ulysses ' soul and all the rest Are held with his melodious harmony , In willing chains and sweet captivity.1 From a Letter to Alexander Gill [ the younger - one of Milton's teachers at St ...
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... song , and through your house , infernal king , where with an offering of dark blood he is said to have held the flocks of shades . Truly the bard is sacred to the gods ; he is their priest , and both his heart and lips mysteriously ...
... song , and through your house , infernal king , where with an offering of dark blood he is said to have held the flocks of shades . Truly the bard is sacred to the gods ; he is their priest , and both his heart and lips mysteriously ...
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... song , and is it the gift of spring to inspire my genius ? Yes , from spring comes genius waxing strong ; and - who would believe it - my powers are already demanding for themselves some new task . Before my eyes hover the Castalian ...
... song , and is it the gift of spring to inspire my genius ? Yes , from spring comes genius waxing strong ; and - who would believe it - my powers are already demanding for themselves some new task . Before my eyes hover the Castalian ...
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... song . His gifts repaid shall be his reward.1 From an English Letter to a Friend , [ who had been remonstrat- ing with him on his delay in choosing a profession . ] Sir : Besides that in sundry respects I must acknowledge me to profit ...
... song . His gifts repaid shall be his reward.1 From an English Letter to a Friend , [ who had been remonstrat- ing with him on his delay in choosing a profession . ] Sir : Besides that in sundry respects I must acknowledge me to profit ...
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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.