John Milton: A BiographyCockshaw, 1851 - 251 sider |
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Side 15
... give advantage to be more fit ; for those that were latest lost nothing when the master of the vineyard came to give each one his hire . " This letter is enriched with one of Milton's early sonnets , which , in common with the foregoing ...
... give advantage to be more fit ; for those that were latest lost nothing when the master of the vineyard came to give each one his hire . " This letter is enriched with one of Milton's early sonnets , which , in common with the foregoing ...
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... gives us his own motives in his Treatise entitled " The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , " in the following words : - : - " The Church , to whose service , by the intentions of my parents and friends I was destined of ...
... gives us his own motives in his Treatise entitled " The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy , " in the following words : - : - " The Church , to whose service , by the intentions of my parents and friends I was destined of ...
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... give some proof of his wit and reading . " And many of the productions of his earlier years , and others which he composed at the time , were received " with written encomiums , which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this ...
... give some proof of his wit and reading . " And many of the productions of his earlier years , and others which he composed at the time , were received " with written encomiums , which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this ...
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... give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel ...
... give to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class . They remind us of the amusements of those angelic warriors who composed the cohort of Gabriel ...
Side 36
... give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to pro- pose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempt- ing ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer ...
... give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath liberty to pro- pose to herself , though of highest hope and hardest attempt- ing ; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer ...
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Side 111 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 219 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Side 12 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Side 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Side 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Side 26 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Side 236 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Side 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Side 159 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Side 211 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?