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Seite x
... Sonnets was equally unhappy : all that could be said of the best of them was that they were not bad . This almost matches the observation of Steevens that an Act of Parliament would be required to make people read " Shakespeare's ...
... Sonnets was equally unhappy : all that could be said of the best of them was that they were not bad . This almost matches the observation of Steevens that an Act of Parliament would be required to make people read " Shakespeare's ...
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Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. " Shakespeare's Sonnets . Johnson was more in his element when criticising Paradise Lost ' than when dealing with Milton's minor poems . Those little pieces , he said , might be dispatched without ...
Samuel Johnson Charles Harding Firth. " Shakespeare's Sonnets . Johnson was more in his element when criticising Paradise Lost ' than when dealing with Milton's minor poems . Those little pieces , he said , might be dispatched without ...
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... sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the lady had no inclination to return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very willingly forgot her promise . He sent her Io a letter , but had no answer ; he sent ...
... sonnets . At last Michaelmas arrived ; but the lady had no inclination to return to the sullen gloom of her husband's habitation , and therefore very willingly forgot her promise . He sent her Io a letter , but had no answer ; he sent ...
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... sonnets , of which the first is contemptible , and the second not excellent . From this time it is observed that he became an enemy 5 to the Presbyterians , whom he had favoured before . He that changes his party by his humour is not ...
... sonnets , of which the first is contemptible , and the second not excellent . From this time it is observed that he became an enemy 5 to the Presbyterians , whom he had favoured before . He that changes his party by his humour is not ...
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... like his own . She died , within a year , of childbirth , or some distemper that followed it ; and her husband honoured her memory with a poor sonnet , L The first reply to Milton's ' Defensio Populi ' was MILTON . 23.
... like his own . She died , within a year , of childbirth , or some distemper that followed it ; and her husband honoured her memory with a poor sonnet , L The first reply to Milton's ' Defensio Populi ' was MILTON . 23.
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Adam Addison admired afterwards angels answer appears Areopagitica Aubrey Bentley blank verse blind called censure character Chorus Church College Comus copies Cowley criticism daughter death defence Defensio Secunda delight diction Dryden edition of Milton's Edward Phillips Eikon Basilike elegance elegies Ellwood English entitled epic friends given by Masson heroic poem honour Il Penseroso Italian John Milton Johnson King labour language Latin learning letters Lives Long Parliament Lycidas married Martin Bucer Milton's Poems mind minor poems moral Morus nature never notes opinion pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament passage passion Penseroso perhaps pleasure poet poetical poetry Pope praise preface prefixed printed probably Prose published reader reason regicides remarks rhyme Salmasius Samson Agonistes Satan says Second Edition seems Smectymnuus Sonnets Spectator Spenser style Thomas thought tion Toland tragedy translation treatise truth W. W. SKEAT write written wrote
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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.