The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 pages |
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Page 67
... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
... thou , Tarpeian poet , * cease to boast Thy Pompey's porch , and theatre's bright host . Let foreign nymphs the fruitless strife forbear : Beauty's first prize belongs to Britain's fair . Imperial London ! built by Trojan hands , With ...
Page 68
... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . As this translation was made during a period of peculiar soli- citude , when my mind was fevered , or rather phrenzied with alter- nate ...
... thou accept , to cheat the present time , My pledge of love , these lines constrain'd to rhyme . As this translation was made during a period of peculiar soli- citude , when my mind was fevered , or rather phrenzied with alter- nate ...
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... thou wast divine . VI . Resolve me then , O soul most surely blest ! ( If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear ) Tell me , bright Spirit , where'er thou hoverest ; Whether above that high first moving sphere , Or in the Elysian ...
... thou wast divine . VI . Resolve me then , O soul most surely blest ! ( If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear ) Tell me , bright Spirit , where'er thou hoverest ; Whether above that high first moving sphere , Or in the Elysian ...
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... thou , the mother of so sweet a child , HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that ... Thou tread'st with Seraphim the dread abyss , & c . stanza of the hymn is the offspring , at once SO LIFE OF MILTON ...
... thou , the mother of so sweet a child , HER false imagined loss cease to lament , & c . it is rather strange that ... Thou tread'st with Seraphim the dread abyss , & c . stanza of the hymn is the offspring , at once SO LIFE OF MILTON ...
Page 83
... thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity , How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
... thou clothe my fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity , How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?