The Life of John MiltonNichols and Son, 1810 - 646 halaman |
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... means not only facinus and vitium , but pro- brum and dedecus , -not merely crime , but shame and disgrace . As this work was originally written under circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be ...
... means not only facinus and vitium , but pro- brum and dedecus , -not merely crime , but shame and disgrace . As this work was originally written under circumstances not favourable to its perfec- tion , I was fearful that it might be ...
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... mean character concur to excite in the same moment our respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual ...
... mean character concur to excite in the same moment our respect and our pity , I have been censured with some degree of harshness by a writer , of whose conduct to me in other respects I feel no reason to com- plain . The intellectual ...
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... means of subsist- ence in London , from the profession of a scrivener ; a profession which in those days united the distinct occupations of the law- agent , and the money - broker . • Near Halton and Thame . That he was not an ordinary ...
... means of subsist- ence in London , from the profession of a scrivener ; a profession which in those days united the distinct occupations of the law- agent , and the money - broker . • Near Halton and Thame . That he was not an ordinary ...
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... means , as we may be certain , were ⚫ omitted to expand the intellectual Hercules of the nursery into the full dimensions of that mental amplitude for which he was intended . We know that a portrait of him , when he was only ten years ...
... means , as we may be certain , were ⚫ omitted to expand the intellectual Hercules of the nursery into the full dimensions of that mental amplitude for which he was intended . We know that a portrait of him , when he was only ten years ...
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... means in affluent circumstances , could not have been a common child.i 66 My father destined me , " ( our author says , ) when I was yet a little boy , to the study of elegant literature , and , so eagerly did I seize on it that , from ...
... means in affluent circumstances , could not have been a common child.i 66 My father destined me , " ( our author says , ) when I was yet a little boy , to the study of elegant literature , and , so eagerly did I seize on it that , from ...
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Halaman 252 - 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.
Halaman 151 - 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.
Halaman 389 - CVRIAC, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up, and steer Right onward.
Halaman 394 - 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.
Halaman 151 - 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, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Halaman 507 - 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.
Halaman 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy 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.
Halaman 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Halaman 254 - 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 muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Halaman 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...