The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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Page iii
... fome ob- fcure hints , and the execution of which could not be delayed . One of the fellows of our college , who was to be the respondent in a philofophical disputation for his degree , engaged me to furnish him with fome verses , which ...
... fome ob- fcure hints , and the execution of which could not be delayed . One of the fellows of our college , who was to be the respondent in a philofophical disputation for his degree , engaged me to furnish him with fome verses , which ...
Page xii
... fome degree of profperity as long as their language has re- tained its elegance and its purity . Hence , my Bene- ditto , you may be induced to proceed in executing a work fo ufeful to your country , and may clearly fee what an ...
... fome degree of profperity as long as their language has re- tained its elegance and its purity . Hence , my Bene- ditto , you may be induced to proceed in executing a work fo ufeful to your country , and may clearly fee what an ...
Page xvi
... fome notion from the pain with which it was attended ; and without a mixture of which hardly any great pleasure is conceded to mankind . While I was perufing the first lines of yours , in which the elegance of expreffion feems to con ...
... fome notion from the pain with which it was attended ; and without a mixture of which hardly any great pleasure is conceded to mankind . While I was perufing the first lines of yours , in which the elegance of expreffion feems to con ...
Page xvii
... fome tie of little moment , are continually at hand to infeft my home , to ftun me with their noife and waste me with vexation , while those who are endeared to me by the closest fym- pathy of manners , of taftes and purfuits , are ...
... fome tie of little moment , are continually at hand to infeft my home , to ftun me with their noife and waste me with vexation , while those who are endeared to me by the closest fym- pathy of manners , of taftes and purfuits , are ...
Page xviii
... fome rather harfh expreffions which they contained against the Roman pontiff would have ren- dered them lefs pleafing to your ears . Now I request whenever I mention the rites of your religion in my own way , that you will prevail on ...
... fome rather harfh expreffions which they contained against the Roman pontiff would have ren- dered them lefs pleafing to your ears . Now I request whenever I mention the rites of your religion in my own way , that you will prevail on ...
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Page 300 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 278 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience; inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Page 277 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Page 290 - ... and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Page 325 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 290 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 123 - 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 348 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 290 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
Page 119 - I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue...