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... divine gift , rather than eat the sweeter bread of indigence , and herd with his misfortunes in a cottage or a garret , we may be well assured that he abhors whom he lauds , and burns to give birth to the vi- tuperation and satire which ...
... divine gift , rather than eat the sweeter bread of indigence , and herd with his misfortunes in a cottage or a garret , we may be well assured that he abhors whom he lauds , and burns to give birth to the vi- tuperation and satire which ...
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... divine fire , passes uncontaminated through the world - in it , but not of it - finding in every situation , but chiefly where the brethren of his race are most nume- rous , " books in the running brooks , sermons X PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
... divine fire , passes uncontaminated through the world - in it , but not of it - finding in every situation , but chiefly where the brethren of his race are most nume- rous , " books in the running brooks , sermons X PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE .
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... divine intercourse betwixt God and the soul ; yea , the very shape of God himself , into an exterior and bodily form , urgently pretending a necessity and obligement of joining the body in a formal reverence , and worship circumscribed ...
... divine intercourse betwixt God and the soul ; yea , the very shape of God himself , into an exterior and bodily form , urgently pretending a necessity and obligement of joining the body in a formal reverence , and worship circumscribed ...
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... divine and human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banners of salvation ; the martyrs , with the irresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of ...
... divine and human learning raked out of the embers of forgotten tongues , the princes and cities trooping apace to the new - erected banners of salvation ; the martyrs , with the irresistible might of weakness , shaking the powers of ...
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... divine music of his verse , to come forward , and in the words I have learned of him , to babble of those failings from which no mortal is free . 48. From what has been said above , may be in- ferred , what were the prevailing opinions ...
... divine music of his verse , to come forward , and in the words I have learned of him , to babble of those failings from which no mortal is free . 48. From what has been said above , may be in- ferred , what were the prevailing opinions ...
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Seite 48 - the traveller still beholds from a distance the tower and gardens of Buffon. To his own practice of early rising Milton alludes in L'Allegro : "To hear the lark begin his flight. And singing startle the dull night; From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise,
Seite 162 - me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.
Seite 148 - He had already, in Comus, described the delight derivable from the study of philosophy : " How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose. But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 223 - grown old, a prisoner to the inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness, that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty.
Seite 59 - Milton, like every other great and noble mind, entertained the most elevated ideas of pure love. In the Paradise Lost, he thus, in a burst of enthusiasm, apostrophizes this holiest of all passions:— " Hail, wedded love! mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety, In paradise of all things common else. ****** Far be it that
Seite 241 - abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, nutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 59 - and chaste pronounced, Present or past, as saints or patriarchs used. Here Love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels."—Book iv. v. 750, &c. Again :— " Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath his seat In reason, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heavenly love thou mayst
Seite 200 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; ( 3;|
Seite 200 - of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil; that is to say, of knowing good by evil.
Seite 48 - to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our