Milton on Education, the Tractate Of EducationYale University Press, 1928 - 369 sider |
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Side 52
... kind of learning , therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us 52 MILTON ON EDUCATION.
... kind of learning , therefore we are chiefly taught the languages of those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us 52 MILTON ON EDUCATION.
Side 66
... kind of toil . Nor is this nerveless , languid , and earthy matter elevated or dignified by any beauty of style . . . . I think there never can have been any place for these studies on Parnassus , unless perhaps some uncultivated nook ...
... kind of toil . Nor is this nerveless , languid , and earthy matter elevated or dignified by any beauty of style . . . . I think there never can have been any place for these studies on Parnassus , unless perhaps some uncultivated nook ...
Side 72
... kind of temple ; to be such as kings and commonwealths invite to come to them , such as neighbors and foreigners flock to visit , such as to have even once seen shall be boasted of by others as something meritorious : these are the ...
... kind of temple ; to be such as kings and commonwealths invite to come to them , such as neighbors and foreigners flock to visit , such as to have even once seen shall be boasted of by others as something meritorious : these are the ...
Side 73
... kind of Lerna of sophisms , invented to cause ship- wrecks and breed pestilence ? When all those things which can be of no profit have been deservedly contemned and cut off , it will be a matter of wonder how many whole years we shall ...
... kind of Lerna of sophisms , invented to cause ship- wrecks and breed pestilence ? When all those things which can be of no profit have been deservedly contemned and cut off , it will be a matter of wonder how many whole years we shall ...
Side 78
... kind . For , if it be bad , why should not all the fond hopes that forward youth and vanity are fledge with , together with gain , pride , and ambition , call me forward more powerfully than a poor , regard- less , and unprofitable sin ...
... kind . For , if it be bad , why should not all the fond hopes that forward youth and vanity are fledge with , together with gain , pride , and ambition , call me forward more powerfully than a poor , regard- less , and unprofitable sin ...
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Side 133 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Side 248 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom...
Side 134 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what, though rare, of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes, as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made hell grant what love did seek...
Side 134 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Side 90 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave, something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 87 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Side 161 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Side 274 - I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Side 106 - 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.
Side 161 - 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.