Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineReprinted for Edward Rainford, 1828 - 48 sider |
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... highest order of intellect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fas- tidiousness which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted in ...
... highest order of intellect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fas- tidiousness which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted in ...
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... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True ; po- etry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True ; po- etry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
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... highest triumph , in imparting a character of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so remote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
... highest triumph , in imparting a character of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so remote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
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... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
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... highest merit . A great mind cannot without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes ...
... highest merit . A great mind cannot without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these attributes ...
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amidst anti-trinitarian Apostles b. v. lines beauty believe bound breathes Channing CHARACTER AND WRITINGS Character of Napoleon Christ Christian Doctrine Comus consciousness corruption delight despotism divine energy eternity evil exalt faith feeling Fleet Street free agency freedom genius gifted give God's grandeur happiness Harvard College heaven Holy Spirit honour human mind human nature imagination intellectual JOHN MILTON Johnson Judaism language LATELY DISCOVERED TREATISE liberty light lofty Lord's Supper man's matter Milton's character Milton's poetry minister moral noble objects opinions Osiris Paradise Paradise Lost particular church passages passions poet poetical polygamy Price 6d prose writings racter readers RED LION refined religion religious remarks reverence RICHARD TAYLOR sacred Satan Scripture seems soul speak splendour style sublime tenderness Testament things thou thought tion tivate topic total depravity Treatise on Christian true truth Unitarian universal views virtue whole wholly wisdom worship youthful
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Side 22 - 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.
Side 12 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Side 23 - Then, amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty measure to sing and celebrate thy divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages...
Side 9 - ... feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
Side 12 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Side 20 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Side 14 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Side 25 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Side 21 - 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, — 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...
Side 21 - But now by this little diligence, mark what a privilege I have gained with good men and saints, to claim my right of lamenting the tribulations of the church, if she should suffer, when others that have ventured nothing for her sake, have not the honor to be admitted mourners. But, if she lift up her drooping head and prosper, among those that have something more than wished her welfare, I have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs.