The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, Volumen1Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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... , which was the period of his later muse and of the publication of " Paradise Lost . " It is the plan of the present work to devote a volume to each of these periods . PREFACE ΤΟ VOLUME FIRST . THE most authentic and important VI NOTICE .
... , which was the period of his later muse and of the publication of " Paradise Lost . " It is the plan of the present work to devote a volume to each of these periods . PREFACE ΤΟ VOLUME FIRST . THE most authentic and important VI NOTICE .
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... present volume , these portions may be enumerated as follows : I. Among his prose writings in English and in Latin at a later period , there are several in which he gives summaries , or at least connected reminiscences , of the facts of ...
... present volume , these portions may be enumerated as follows : I. Among his prose writings in English and in Latin at a later period , there are several in which he gives summaries , or at least connected reminiscences , of the facts of ...
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... present period , forming a little series by themselves , dis- tinguished by peculiar characteristics , and full of biographical light . I allude to his so - called Prolusiones Oratoriæ , or Academic Essays and Exercises , writ- ten ...
... present period , forming a little series by themselves , dis- tinguished by peculiar characteristics , and full of biographical light . I allude to his so - called Prolusiones Oratoriæ , or Academic Essays and Exercises , writ- ten ...
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... present volume , I have , of course , availed myself of such information as I could find gathered by my predecessors ; but , on the whole , from the rapidity with which they pass over this period of the Life , the amount of such ...
... present volume , I have , of course , availed myself of such information as I could find gathered by my predecessors ; but , on the whole , from the rapidity with which they pass over this period of the Life , the amount of such ...
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... present . I have made pretty extensive researches in the State Paper Office , at points where Milton or his connections might perchance leave their marks in con- temporary public documents ; and in several cases elucidations of the Biog ...
... present . I have made pretty extensive researches in the State Paper Office , at points where Milton or his connections might perchance leave their marks in con- temporary public documents ; and in several cases elucidations of the Biog ...
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Página 518 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Página 457 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Página 520 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Página 490 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Página 454 - Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.
Página 167 - Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. So when the sun in bed, Curtained with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave, The flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail, Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave, And the yellow-skirted fays Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze.
Página 453 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 519 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Página 487 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Página 495 - Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green, That in the channel strays; Whilst from off the waters fleet Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.