The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 من الصفحات |
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... scale for merit . By one my prose my composition has been censured , and by an- other This critic discovers that my my verse . translations are superfluous , and that pro- nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE : 9.
... scale for merit . By one my prose my composition has been censured , and by an- other This critic discovers that my my verse . translations are superfluous , and that pro- nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE : 9.
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... verse and prose with considerable taste ; and Mr. Warton mentions a Latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his Latin composition . Having exposed himself , by means of which we are now ignorant , to ...
... verse and prose with considerable taste ; and Mr. Warton mentions a Latin epitaph from his pen , which bears testimony to the uncommon purity of his Latin composition . Having exposed himself , by means of which we are now ignorant , to ...
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... verse with many of these violations of quantity , and the accusation is repeated , as I shall remark in the proper place , by N. Heinsius . Though Milton's Latin metre be not proof against rigorous inquisi- tion , yet are its offences ...
... verse with many of these violations of quantity , and the accusation is repeated , as I shall remark in the proper place , by N. Heinsius . Though Milton's Latin metre be not proof against rigorous inquisi- tion , yet are its offences ...
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... verse . I have occasionally hinted that Milton's Latin prose composition is not altogether faultless : but its faults are few and trivial ; and to dwell on them would expend time for an insufficient object . On his Greek composition ...
... verse . I have occasionally hinted that Milton's Latin prose composition is not altogether faultless : but its faults are few and trivial ; and to dwell on them would expend time for an insufficient object . On his Greek composition ...
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... verses , Cæteraque , " & c . " and other things , " I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggesting only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of con- cealing the weakness of his inference , has in- timated a false translation of the ...
... verses , Cæteraque , " & c . " and other things , " I shall leave to the reader to determine ; suggesting only that Dr. Johnson , for the purpose of con- cealing the weakness of his inference , has in- timated a false translation of the ...
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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?