Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 páginas |
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... moral qualities of a great man are attractions not easily with- stood , and we can hardly serve others or ourselves more , than by recalling to him the attention , which is scattered among inferior topics . In speaking of the ...
... moral qualities of a great man are attractions not easily with- stood , and we can hardly serve others or ourselves more , than by recalling to him the attention , which is scattered among inferior topics . In speaking of the ...
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... moral nature , often escape in an immor- al work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and ...
... moral nature , often escape in an immor- al work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and ...
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... in its author almost the spiritual energy with which he invests the fallen seraph . Some have doubted whether the moral effect of such delineations of the storms and terrible work- ings of the soul is good ; whether the inter- 24 MILTON .
... in its author almost the spiritual energy with which he invests the fallen seraph . Some have doubted whether the moral effect of such delineations of the storms and terrible work- ings of the soul is good ; whether the inter- 24 MILTON .
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... moral victory , the happiness of disinterested sac- rifices and wide - spread love , the happiness of boundless hope , and of ' thoughts which wander through eternity . ' Still there are times , when the spirit , oppressed with pain ...
... moral victory , the happiness of disinterested sac- rifices and wide - spread love , the happiness of boundless hope , and of ' thoughts which wander through eternity . ' Still there are times , when the spirit , oppressed with pain ...
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... moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feeling , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay , he is not spirit - broken . His L ...
... moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feeling , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay , he is not spirit - broken . His L ...
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