The Prose Works of John Milton ...: Defence of the people of England. Second defence of the people of England. Tr. by R. Fellowes. Eikonoklastes. [With preface by R. Baron] [1889G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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Page 467 - For the Angel of Death spread his wings in the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed ; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts heaved but once, and for ever grew still
Page 458 - bear : behold thou hast driven me this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid." " And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding bitter cry and said, Bless me, even
Page xiii - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This mischief had not then befallen. And more that shall befall, innumerable Disturbances on earth through female snares, And strait conjunction with this sex. For either
Page 35 - he sees occasion. Here is nothing like tyranny; nothing that a good man needs be afraid of. " Where the word of a king is. there is power ; and who may say to him, What dost thou ?" And yet we read of one, that not only said to a king, '• What dost thou?" but told him,
Page 346 - according to that sentence of divine justice, " In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." From hence he takes occasion to excuse that improvident and fatal error of his absenting from the parliament. " When he found that no declaration of the bishops could take place against those tumults." Was that worth his considering
Page 459 - ray father ; yet found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears." (Heb. xii.) " And Balaam said, Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." " And when Ahab heard the words of Elijah, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
Page 73 - and ground extravagant notions upon his discourse. " The magistrates," says he, " are not a terror to good works, but to evil : Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise of the same; for he is the minister of God