Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Том 51836 |
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... Milton . The former gave him his songs to set to music ; the latter wrote his exquisite masque of Comus ' at his solicitation , it is said , and married Lawes ' music to his own immortal verse . Both poets seem to have been fully satis ...
... Milton . The former gave him his songs to set to music ; the latter wrote his exquisite masque of Comus ' at his solicitation , it is said , and married Lawes ' music to his own immortal verse . Both poets seem to have been fully satis ...
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... Milton , who was then high in authority , and who , losing all asperity of political feeling in his veneration for literary talent , successfully employed his interest for the delivery of the captive poet . Sir William was ac- cordingly ...
... Milton , who was then high in authority , and who , losing all asperity of political feeling in his veneration for literary talent , successfully employed his interest for the delivery of the captive poet . Sir William was ac- cordingly ...
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... Milton's . Harrington con- tinued to defend and explain his Oceana , but took no active part , fur- ther than by his pen , in the changes that followed . It appears , how- ever , that he was too free for the times in the communication ...
... Milton's . Harrington con- tinued to defend and explain his Oceana , but took no active part , fur- ther than by his pen , in the changes that followed . It appears , how- ever , that he was too free for the times in the communication ...
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... Milton . BORN A. D. 1608. - DIED A.D. 1674 . JOHN MILTON , the champion of English liberty , and the glory of English literature , was born in London on the 9th of December , 1608 . His ancestry was respectable in descent , and ...
... Milton . BORN A. D. 1608. - DIED A.D. 1674 . JOHN MILTON , the champion of English liberty , and the glory of English literature , was born in London on the 9th of December , 1608 . His ancestry was respectable in descent , and ...
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... Milton's domes- tic preceptor is known to have gone abroad with the view of obtaining larger freedom of conscience than he could enjoy in his native country . It was in this year also that Milton produced his first recorded poetical ...
... Milton's domes- tic preceptor is known to have gone abroad with the view of obtaining larger freedom of conscience than he could enjoy in his native country . It was in this year also that Milton produced his first recorded poetical ...
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Страница 300 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Страница 318 - ... nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down may chance to spring up armed men.
Страница 318 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Страница 318 - ... who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Страница 294 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Страница 321 - They are powerful, not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Страница 336 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Страница 270 - By all the heav'ns thou hast in him, Fair sister of the seraphim! By all of him we have in thee, Leave nothing of myself in me: Let me so read thy life that I Unto all life of mine may die.
Страница 337 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Страница 242 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign ; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.