The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1806 |
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... Lycidas , L'Alle- gro and Il Penseroso , does not belong to the period under our notice , and shall be at- tended to in its place ; but it will be proper not to pass the two former without remark , as they tend to exhibit to us the ...
... Lycidas , L'Alle- gro and Il Penseroso , does not belong to the period under our notice , and shall be at- tended to in its place ; but it will be proper not to pass the two former without remark , as they tend to exhibit to us the ...
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... Lycidas , in 1637 , were unquestionably written at Horton ; and there is the strongest internal evidence to prove that the Arcades , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso were also composed in this rural scene and this season of delightful ...
... Lycidas , in 1637 , were unquestionably written at Horton ; and there is the strongest internal evidence to prove that the Arcades , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso were also composed in this rural scene and this season of delightful ...
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... to his friend , Alex . Gill , dated dec . 4 , 1634 , we find that in the same year in which the poet finished Comus , he made that version of the 114th Psalm into The Lycidas was written , as there is reason to 66 LIFE OF MILTON .
... to his friend , Alex . Gill , dated dec . 4 , 1634 , we find that in the same year in which the poet finished Comus , he made that version of the 114th Psalm into The Lycidas was written , as there is reason to 66 LIFE OF MILTON .
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... Lycidas occupies the last , and , as it was no doubt intended to be , the most honourable place . Every honour which could be paid to its poetic excellence was inferior to its just demand : but we may reasonably wonder that a poem ...
... Lycidas occupies the last , and , as it was no doubt intended to be , the most honourable place . Every honour which could be paid to its poetic excellence was inferior to its just demand : but we may reasonably wonder that a poem ...
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... Lycidas , the entire monody must be felt by every reader of taste as an effusion of the purest and most exalted poetry . We may wish , perhaps , that it had been constructed on some other plan of stanza , or with a different arrangement ...
... Lycidas , the entire monody must be felt by every reader of taste as an effusion of the purest and most exalted poetry . We may wish , perhaps , that it had been constructed on some other plan of stanza , or with a different arrangement ...
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Page 451 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 212 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. 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.
Page 113 - 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.
Page 147 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 175 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Page 112 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 261 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 61 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 211 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 249 - The tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving that it is lawful, and hath been held so through all ages, for any, who have the power, to call to account a Tyrant or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose and put him to death ; if the ordinary magistrate have neglected or denied to do it.