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... presents us with real men and not with conventional figures . His occasional reflections on manners and morals are acute ... present century have superseded his account of Milton's family and pedigree . The researches of Professor Masson ...
... presents us with real men and not with conventional figures . His occasional reflections on manners and morals are acute ... present century have superseded his account of Milton's family and pedigree . The researches of Professor Masson ...
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... present edition . Johnson also refers to Voltaire's criticisms of ' Paradise Lost , ' contained in a dissertation on epic poetry attached to the ' Henriade , ' and had perhaps read the article ' Epopée ' in the Dictionnaire ...
... present edition . Johnson also refers to Voltaire's criticisms of ' Paradise Lost , ' contained in a dissertation on epic poetry attached to the ' Henriade , ' and had perhaps read the article ' Epopée ' in the Dictionnaire ...
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... he is supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He long had promised to adorn his native country by 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... he is supposed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished his dispute with the defenders of the king . He long had promised to adorn his native country by 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women had not then aspired to literature , nor was every house supplied with a closet of ...
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... present , and promised 15 some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
... present , and promised 15 some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.