The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise lost: with an Appendix. By W. Hailey [sic].1799 |
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الصفحة xiii
... she may be enabled , with " all her severity , to attract and delight . " Yet to show how apt a writer of verses is to ac- cuse a profest critic of feverity , we may both re- collect , that when I had occafion to speak of your ...
... she may be enabled , with " all her severity , to attract and delight . " Yet to show how apt a writer of verses is to ac- cuse a profest critic of feverity , we may both re- collect , that when I had occafion to speak of your ...
الصفحة 33
... she was the fixth fum comparatus , ut nulla contentione , & laboribus meis ad tale decus & faftigium laudis ipfe valeam emergere , tamen quo minus qui eam gloriam affecuti funt , aut eo feliciter aspirant , illos femper colam ...
... she was the fixth fum comparatus , ut nulla contentione , & laboribus meis ad tale decus & faftigium laudis ipfe valeam emergere , tamen quo minus qui eam gloriam affecuti funt , aut eo feliciter aspirant , illos femper colam ...
الصفحة 101
... she used to speak with fuch filial eloquence as infpired Milton with a fonnet in her praise . He continued alfo to manifeft his firm affec- tion to the public good , by two compofitions intended to promote it ; the little tractate on ...
... she used to speak with fuch filial eloquence as infpired Milton with a fonnet in her praise . He continued alfo to manifeft his firm affec- tion to the public good , by two compofitions intended to promote it ; the little tractate on ...
الصفحة 104
... She poffeffed , according to Philips , both wit and beauty . A novelift could hardly imagine circumftances more fingularly diftreffing to fenfibility , than the fituation of the poet , if , as we may reasonably conjecture , he was ...
... She poffeffed , according to Philips , both wit and beauty . A novelift could hardly imagine circumftances more fingularly diftreffing to fenfibility , than the fituation of the poet , if , as we may reasonably conjecture , he was ...
الصفحة 105
... , " His counfel whom she had difpleas'd , his aid As one difarm'd , his anger all he loft . 66 " It has been faid , that Milton refembled · his 9 . THE LIFE OF MILTON . 105 of his heart. While he was converfing with a ...
... , " His counfel whom she had difpleas'd , his aid As one difarm'd , his anger all he loft . 66 " It has been faid , that Milton refembled · his 9 . THE LIFE OF MILTON . 105 of his heart. While he was converfing with a ...
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الصفحة 77 - ... are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
الصفحة 79 - ... 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 61 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
الصفحة 175 - 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 81 - And long it •was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
الصفحة 238 - I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning : for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...
الصفحة 78 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
الصفحة 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
الصفحة 78 - 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...
الصفحة 65 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.