The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 من الصفحات |
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... circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be found , on a revision , not only faulty in the substance and the mode , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for ...
... circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be found , on a revision , not only faulty in the substance and the mode , but deficient also in the just measure of its information . Its demand however for ...
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... circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL PARR , and a CHARLES Fox . To the last my voice cannot now reach ; and to the first I have already ...
... circumstance , from the very partial re- gard with which this Life of Milton has been honoured by a WILLIAM GIFFORD , a SAMUEL PARR , and a CHARLES Fox . To the last my voice cannot now reach ; and to the first I have already ...
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... gratify the weakness by enumerating among my friends or acquaintance some of the first scholars and geniuses of the age : but of those , whose abi- lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its THE FIRST EDITION . 29.
... gratify the weakness by enumerating among my friends or acquaintance some of the first scholars and geniuses of the age : but of those , whose abi- lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its THE FIRST EDITION . 29.
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Charles Symmons. lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my obligations for effective aid are limited to one . By the reverend FRANCIS WRANG- HAM ...
Charles Symmons. lity , if circumstances had permitted me to solicit its co - operation , would have imparted ornament and value to my production , my obligations for effective aid are limited to one . By the reverend FRANCIS WRANG- HAM ...
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... circumstances . Under the constant pressure of a profession , peculi- arly unfavourable to the cultivation of liberal knowledge or the elegant arts , his classi- cal acquirements seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his ...
... circumstances . Under the constant pressure of a profession , peculi- arly unfavourable to the cultivation of liberal knowledge or the elegant arts , his classi- cal acquirements seem to have been con- siderable ; and such was his ...
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الصفحة 161 - 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 212 - 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 263 - 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, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
الصفحة 293 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
الصفحة 406 - 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. Her face was...
الصفحة 519 - 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 196 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
الصفحة 264 - 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 mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
الصفحة 511 - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
الصفحة 225 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?