The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William Hayley |
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الصفحة xxix
That you may long retain and display this happy assemblage of endowments , so
rare in a critical veteran , is the cordial wish of many , and particularly the wish of
your very sincere and affectionate friend , W. H. EARTHAM , Oct. 29 , 1795 .
That you may long retain and display this happy assemblage of endowments , so
rare in a critical veteran , is the cordial wish of many , and particularly the wish of
your very sincere and affectionate friend , W. H. EARTHAM , Oct. 29 , 1795 .
الصفحة 129
... many , on whose judgment the author set the highest value , though they were
made a source of indecent mirth by the vulgar ; and we may reasonably conclude
it was this circumstance that induced him to wish he had written them in Latin .
... many , on whose judgment the author set the highest value , though they were
made a source of indecent mirth by the vulgar ; and we may reasonably conclude
it was this circumstance that induced him to wish he had written them in Latin .
الصفحة 279
... may wish to investigate the respective powers of English rhyme and blank
verse , and it may furnish arguments to the partizans of each ; for , if in many
passages the images and harmony of Milton are deplorably injured by the
MILTON 279.
... may wish to investigate the respective powers of English rhyme and blank
verse , and it may furnish arguments to the partizans of each ; for , if in many
passages the images and harmony of Milton are deplorably injured by the
MILTON 279.
الصفحة 335
What friend to letters and to genius , could fail to wish affluent comfort to the
closing life of such authors , however he might condemn the excesses of
republican severity in the one , or those of servile and censorial bigotry in the
other ?
What friend to letters and to genius , could fail to wish affluent comfort to the
closing life of such authors , however he might condemn the excesses of
republican severity in the one , or those of servile and censorial bigotry in the
other ?
الصفحة 373
... he certainly ended by rejection of imposture . The miserable Lauder was
punished by events so calamitous , that even those admirers of Milton , who are
most offended by the enormity of the fraud , must wish that penitence
CONJECTURES .
... he certainly ended by rejection of imposture . The miserable Lauder was
punished by events so calamitous , that even those admirers of Milton , who are
most offended by the enormity of the fraud , must wish that penitence
CONJECTURES .
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مقاطع مشهورة
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...
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William Hayley المجلد 1 من Cowper's Milton, in Four Volumes, William Cowper |
| المؤلف | William Hayley |
| الناشر | W. Mason, 1810 |
| أصلي من | مكتبة نيويورك العامة |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 26 آب (أغسطس) 2006 |
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