Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John Milton, المجلد 1H. Washbourne, 1810 |
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الصفحة xi
... and destroy . In emulation of that spirit , which delights to honor the excellencies of an illustrious antagonist , · I have endeavoured to preserve in my own mind , and to express on every proper occasion , my un- DEDICATION . XI .
... and destroy . In emulation of that spirit , which delights to honor the excellencies of an illustrious antagonist , · I have endeavoured to preserve in my own mind , and to express on every proper occasion , my un- DEDICATION . XI .
الصفحة xvii
... criticism may be smoothed , and how she may be enabled , with all her severity , to attract and delight . " Yet to shew how apt a writer of verses is to VOL . I. b accuse a profest critic of severity , we may both DEDICATION . XVII.
... criticism may be smoothed , and how she may be enabled , with all her severity , to attract and delight . " Yet to shew how apt a writer of verses is to VOL . I. b accuse a profest critic of severity , we may both DEDICATION . XVII.
الصفحة xxviii
... delight of all the world— for rarely , very rarely indeed , has heaven be- stowed on any individual such an ample , such a variegated portion of true poetical genius , and never did it add greater purity of heart to that di- vine yet ...
... delight of all the world— for rarely , very rarely indeed , has heaven be- stowed on any individual such an ample , such a variegated portion of true poetical genius , and never did it add greater purity of heart to that di- vine yet ...
الصفحة 5
... delight I add the name of Cowper . Since I am indebted to Milton for a friend- ship , which I regard as honorable in the highest degree , may I be indulged in the hope of leaving a lasting memorial of it in these pages . A book ...
... delight I add the name of Cowper . Since I am indebted to Milton for a friend- ship , which I regard as honorable in the highest degree , may I be indulged in the hope of leaving a lasting memorial of it in these pages . A book ...
الصفحة 10
... delight , the infantine portrait of Milton , by that ele- gant and faithful artist , Cornelius Jansen . Aubrey , the antiquarian , observing in his manuscript memoirs of our author , that he was ten years old when this picture was drawn ...
... delight , the infantine portrait of Milton , by that ele- gant and faithful artist , Cornelius Jansen . Aubrey , the antiquarian , observing in his manuscript memoirs of our author , that he was ten years old when this picture was drawn ...
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الصفحة 102 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, 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...
الصفحة 100 - 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, are a diffuse, and that book of Job a brief model...
الصفحة 124 - Which after held the sun and moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when Truth would set them free. Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good...
الصفحة 80 - 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 52 - 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 248 - The punishment of dissolute days ; in fine, Just or unjust, alike seem miserable, For oft alike both come to evil end. So deal not with this once thy glorious champion, The image of thy strength, and mighty minister, What do I beg ? how hast thou dealt already ? Behold him in this state calamitous, and turn His labours, for thou canst, to peaceful end.
الصفحة 103 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
الصفحة 31 - That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
الصفحة 54 - Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end (that were a toilsome vanity), but to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect...
الصفحة 54 - ... that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine, not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British islands as my world...