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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... expected in his delineations of life ; for the present life , which is the first stage of the immortal mind , abounds in the materials of poetry , and it is the high office of the bard to detect this divine element among the grosser la ...
... expected in his delineations of life ; for the present life , which is the first stage of the immortal mind , abounds in the materials of poetry , and it is the high office of the bard to detect this divine element among the grosser la ...
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... expected King , shalt open the clouds to judge the several kingdoms of the world , and distributing national honors and rewards to religious and just common- wealths , shall put an end to all earthly tyrannies , proclaiming thy ...
... expected King , shalt open the clouds to judge the several kingdoms of the world , and distributing national honors and rewards to religious and just common- wealths , shall put an end to all earthly tyrannies , proclaiming thy ...
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... expected to see them , not in the language of the bible , but as existing in the mind of Milton , modified by his peculiar intellect and sensibility , com- bined and embodied with his various know- ledge , illustrated by the analogies ...
... expected to see them , not in the language of the bible , but as existing in the mind of Milton , modified by his peculiar intellect and sensibility , com- bined and embodied with his various know- ledge , illustrated by the analogies ...
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... expected to outstrip them , and to be guides to higher truth . With this nameless and spreading class , we have strong sympathies . We want new light , and care not whence it comes ; we want reformers worthy of the name ; and we should ...
... expected to outstrip them , and to be guides to higher truth . With this nameless and spreading class , we have strong sympathies . We want new light , and care not whence it comes ; we want reformers worthy of the name ; and we should ...
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... expected to look beyond the prevalent opinions of his day , but in which he has followed the beaten road , almost without de- viation , seldom noticing difficulties , and hardly seeming to know their existence . We refer to 92 MILTON .
... expected to look beyond the prevalent opinions of his day , but in which he has followed the beaten road , almost without de- viation , seldom noticing difficulties , and hardly seeming to know their existence . We refer to 92 MILTON .
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...