Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes and analyses by S. Manning |
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الصفحة v
... reason for regretting that the prose works of Milton , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate ... reasons . First , he makes too great a demand upon his readers . His prose , like his poetry , is full of recondite ...
... reason for regretting that the prose works of Milton , where , in the midst of much that is coarse and intemperate ... reasons . First , he makes too great a demand upon his readers . His prose , like his poetry , is full of recondite ...
الصفحة vii
... reason assigned , has lost its interest to the general reader ; and much must , from want of space , have been omitted , which ought to appear . There was therefore no alternative left but to reject this method , and to adopt the ...
... reason assigned , has lost its interest to the general reader ; and much must , from want of space , have been omitted , which ought to appear . There was therefore no alternative left but to reject this method , and to adopt the ...
الصفحة xii
... reason for writing it again . Biographies of Milton have multi- plied greatly since his time , and his reason for not writing another would hold good , with even greater force , at the present day . But since it is thought that some ...
... reason for writing it again . Biographies of Milton have multi- plied greatly since his time , and his reason for not writing another would hold good , with even greater force , at the present day . But since it is thought that some ...
الصفحة xvii
... reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness , " is supported by evidence ; but the malicious glee with which he asserts that Milton " suffered the public indignity of corporal cor- rection , " overshoots ...
... reason to suspect that he was regarded in his college with no great fondness , " is supported by evidence ; but the malicious glee with which he asserts that Milton " suffered the public indignity of corporal cor- rection , " overshoots ...
الصفحة xxi
... Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty , he reverts to this topic , ex- plains himself more fully , and assigns the true reason of his reluctance to enter the church . The passage deserves special attention at the present ...
... Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty , he reverts to this topic , ex- plains himself more fully , and assigns the true reason of his reluctance to enter the church . The passage deserves special attention at the present ...
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الصفحة li - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
الصفحة 103 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
الصفحة 247 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
الصفحة 269 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 261 - ... Peace be to this house. 6 And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
الصفحة 47 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now 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 49 - ... 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 ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
الصفحة 296 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
الصفحة 258 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
الصفحة 84 - 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...