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Seite vii
... Milton's family and pedigree . The researches of Professor Masson amongst the State - papers have revealed the exact history of Milton's Latin secretaryship . The publication of Milton's Treatise of Christian Doctrine ' has thrown new ...
... Milton's family and pedigree . The researches of Professor Masson amongst the State - papers have revealed the exact history of Milton's Latin secretaryship . The publication of Milton's Treatise of Christian Doctrine ' has thrown new ...
Seite viii
Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. • Milton , ' says Boswell , ' the hounds of Whiggism have opened in full cry . ' Horace Walpole writes of Johnson's ' Billings- gate on Milton , ' but weakens the force of his censure by confessing ...
Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. • Milton , ' says Boswell , ' the hounds of Whiggism have opened in full cry . ' Horace Walpole writes of Johnson's ' Billings- gate on Milton , ' but weakens the force of his censure by confessing ...
Seite x
... Milton's lament for King , for there is far more tenderness in Milton's grief for the loss of his friend Charles Diodati . But he failed to perceive the real feeling which does find utterance in parts of ' Lycidas , ' saw nothing in ...
... Milton's lament for King , for there is far more tenderness in Milton's grief for the loss of his friend Charles Diodati . But he failed to perceive the real feeling which does find utterance in parts of ' Lycidas , ' saw nothing in ...
Seite xi
... Milton's minor poems . Those little pieces , he said , might be dispatched without much anxiety , a greater work called for greater care . For the most part his criticism is based on the rules laid down by Aristotle in his ' Poetics ...
... Milton's minor poems . Those little pieces , he said , might be dispatched without much anxiety , a greater work called for greater care . For the most part his criticism is based on the rules laid down by Aristotle in his ' Poetics ...
Seite xii
... Milton's poetry there is no sign of the prejudices which prevented him from doing justice to Milton's life and character . Where that criticism is defective the cause is , to use one of Johnson's own phrases , not lack of candour , but ...
... Milton's poetry there is no sign of the prejudices which prevented him from doing justice to Milton's life and character . Where that criticism is defective the cause is , to use one of Johnson's own phrases , not lack of candour , but ...
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Seite 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Seite 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Seite 101 - 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 deny'd to doe it.
Seite 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Seite 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Seite 14 - 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...
Seite 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Seite 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Seite 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.