The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William HayleyW. Mason, 1810 |
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الصفحة iii
... wish zealously uttered by your beloved and revered relation . You may remember , that Cowper , in conversing with his friend of Sussex , expressed , with a ten- derness and vivacity of spirit peculiar to himself , a kind hope , that an ...
... wish zealously uttered by your beloved and revered relation . You may remember , that Cowper , in conversing with his friend of Sussex , expressed , with a ten- derness and vivacity of spirit peculiar to himself , a kind hope , that an ...
الصفحة iv
... wish could not fail to have its due influence over all , who knew , and loved him as we did . Instead of the Analysis , and the few scenes of Andreini's Adamo , which were formerly annexed to my Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise ...
... wish could not fail to have its due influence over all , who knew , and loved him as we did . Instead of the Analysis , and the few scenes of Andreini's Adamo , which were formerly annexed to my Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise ...
الصفحة vii
... wishes . May it prove a lasting and honorable re- cord of that inexhaustible tenderness and zeal , with which you , his favorite kinsman , were used to serve him as a kind secretary in his season of mental activity , and as an ...
... wishes . May it prove a lasting and honorable re- cord of that inexhaustible tenderness and zeal , with which you , his favorite kinsman , were used to serve him as a kind secretary in his season of mental activity , and as an ...
الصفحة xv
... wish not to charge him with more malevolence towards Milton than he really exerted , I will observe on this occasion , that as he had little , or rather no relish for sonnets , which the stern logician seems to have DEDICATION . XV.
... wish not to charge him with more malevolence towards Milton than he really exerted , I will observe on this occasion , that as he had little , or rather no relish for sonnets , which the stern logician seems to have DEDICATION . XV.
الصفحة xvi
... wish to acquit Johnson of malevolence in every article where my reason will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful necessity of displaying continually , in the following work , the various examples of his severity to Mil- ton ...
... wish to acquit Johnson of malevolence in every article where my reason will allow me to do so . I have been under the painful necessity of displaying continually , in the following work , the various examples of his severity to Mil- ton ...
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الصفحة 84 - 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 57 - ... 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
الصفحة 108 - 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 frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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 33 - 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 104 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
الصفحة 130 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
الصفحة 229 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
الصفحة 104 - ... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
الصفحة 56 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
الصفحة 111 - ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...