Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 sider |
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... thought Milton . Of all God's gifts of intellect , he esteemed poetical genius the most trancen- dant . He esteemed it in himself as a kind of inspiration , and wrote his ... human nature ; we mean , of that thirst or aspiration MILTON . 9.
... thought Milton . Of all God's gifts of intellect , he esteemed poetical genius the most trancen- dant . He esteemed it in himself as a kind of inspiration , and wrote his ... human nature ; we mean , of that thirst or aspiration MILTON . 9.
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... mind is wholy a stranger , for something purer and lovelier , something more powerful , lofty , and thrilling than ... human life than all others , carries us to the very foun- dation and sources of poetry . He , who cannot interpret by his ...
... mind is wholy a stranger , for something purer and lovelier , something more powerful , lofty , and thrilling than ... human life than all others , carries us to the very foun- dation and sources of poetry . He , who cannot interpret by his ...
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... human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all ... mind with shadows and illusions , and builds up im- agination on the ruins of wisdom . That there is a wisdom , against ...
... human na- ture by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings , spreads our sympa- thies over all ... mind with shadows and illusions , and builds up im- agination on the ruins of wisdom . That there is a wisdom , against ...
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... consciousness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a virtuous man has borrowed new ... human modes of existence which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The diffi- culty is too great for any genius wholly ...
... consciousness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a virtuous man has borrowed new ... human modes of existence which he is obliged to ascribe to them . The diffi- culty is too great for any genius wholly ...
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... human objects on whom to pour forth their fulness of affection ; and still it is serene , for it is the love of happy beings , who know not suffering even by name , whose innocence excludes not only the tumults but the thought of ...
... human objects on whom to pour forth their fulness of affection ; and still it is serene , for it is the love of happy beings , who know not suffering even by name , whose innocence excludes not only the tumults but the thought of ...
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Side 87 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Side 44 - ... to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness...
Side 20 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Side 45 - 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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 27 - 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 84 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Side 55 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Side 42 - 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 59 - CYRIACK, 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. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Side 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...