The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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Page viii
... Most of my other friends think it enough to give me one farewell in their letters , but I fee why you do it fo often ; for you give me to understand that your medical authority is now added to the potency , and fub- fervient to the ...
... Most of my other friends think it enough to give me one farewell in their letters , but I fee why you do it fo often ; for you give me to understand that your medical authority is now added to the potency , and fub- fervient to the ...
Page xv
... most flattering distinction . When I went the next day to render him my acknowledgments for this his gracious condefcenfion , it was you who obtained me an interview , in which I experienced a degree of civility and kindness greater ...
... most flattering distinction . When I went the next day to render him my acknowledgments for this his gracious condefcenfion , it was you who obtained me an interview , in which I experienced a degree of civility and kindness greater ...
Page xvii
... most part been fo rapidly hurried from my fight , that my profpects feem continually folitary , and my heart perpetually de- folate . With a lively pleafure do I read your anxious enquiries about my health fince I left Florence , and ...
... most part been fo rapidly hurried from my fight , that my profpects feem continually folitary , and my heart perpetually de- folate . With a lively pleafure do I read your anxious enquiries about my health fince I left Florence , and ...
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... most accomplished Philara , with your good - will towards me , and with your favourable opinion of my defence of the people of England , by your letters to the Lord Auger , a perfon fo renowned for his fingular integrity in execut- ing ...
... most accomplished Philara , with your good - will towards me , and with your favourable opinion of my defence of the people of England , by your letters to the Lord Auger , a perfon fo renowned for his fingular integrity in execut- ing ...
Page xxiv
... most learned fir , and number me among your friends . Westminster , July 6 , 1654 . XV . To LEONARD PHILARA , the Athenian . I HAVE always been devotedly attached to the literature of Greece , and particularly to that of your Athens ...
... most learned fir , and number me among your friends . Westminster , July 6 , 1654 . XV . To LEONARD PHILARA , the Athenian . I HAVE always been devotedly attached to the literature of Greece , and particularly to that of your Athens ...
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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...