The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 من الصفحات |
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... , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for correction has proved to be less than I had reason to apprehend ; and on looking on every side for some fresh sources of intelligence PREFACE . 7.
... , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for correction has proved to be less than I had reason to apprehend ; and on looking on every side for some fresh sources of intelligence PREFACE . 7.
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... reason to com- plain . The intellectual power of Dr. John- son with his numerous virtues , and those pre- judices which united him with a potent fac- tion in the state , conciliated during his life the attachment of many illustrious ...
... reason to com- plain . The intellectual power of Dr. John- son with his numerous virtues , and those pre- judices which united him with a potent fac- tion in the state , conciliated during his life the attachment of many illustrious ...
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... reason to suspect them ; and with his friend , Cave , he resisted their detec- tion as long as the resistance could be either effectual or safe . In any event , he adopted the whole of Lauder's malignity ; and let his par- tizans first ...
... reason to suspect them ; and with his friend , Cave , he resisted their detec- tion as long as the resistance could be either effectual or safe . In any event , he adopted the whole of Lauder's malignity ; and let his par- tizans first ...
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... reason also he would be the more anxious decidedly to incline him with the bias of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the ...
... reason also he would be the more anxious decidedly to incline him with the bias of devotion . The sentiments and the warmth , thus communicated to the mind of the young Milton , would , no doubt , be strengthened by the lessons and the ...
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... reason for me to keep me as I am , lest , having thus tired you singly , I should deal worse with a whole congregation and spoil all the patience of a parish : for I myself do not only see my own tediousness , but now grow offended with ...
... reason for me to keep me as I am , lest , having thus tired you singly , I should deal worse with a whole congregation and spoil all the patience of a parish : for I myself do not only see my own tediousness , but now grow offended with ...
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الصفحة 252 - 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.
الصفحة 151 - 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.
الصفحة 389 - CVRIAC, 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.
الصفحة 394 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
الصفحة 151 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
الصفحة 507 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
الصفحة 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
الصفحة 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
الصفحة 254 - 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
الصفحة 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...