Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived Principally from Documents in His Majesty's State-paper Office, Now First Published, Band 6C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - 370 Seiten |
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... language are no less observable . I must here mention that the house , in which Milton * See Lysons's Middlesex , 1800. Harefield , p . 108 . 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
... language are no less observable . I must here mention that the house , in which Milton * See Lysons's Middlesex , 1800. Harefield , p . 108 . 1 drew such enchanting scenes , was about the year 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
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... scenes , was about the year 1798 pulled down ; and that , during his residence at Horton , he had occasionally taken lodgings in Lon- don , in order to cultivate musick and mathematicks , to meet his friends from Cambridge , and to ...
... scenes , was about the year 1798 pulled down ; and that , during his residence at Horton , he had occasionally taken lodgings in Lon- don , in order to cultivate musick and mathematicks , to meet his friends from Cambridge , and to ...
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... maid returning from her country employment . " As we ascended the hill , the variety of beautiful objects , the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure 24 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
... maid returning from her country employment . " As we ascended the hill , the variety of beautiful objects , the agreeable stillness and natural simplicity of the whole scene , gave us the highest pleasure 24 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE.
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... scene , gave us the highest pleasure . We at length reached the spot , whence Milton undoubt- edly took most of his images ; it is on the top of the hill , from which there is a most extensive pros- pect on all sides : the distant ...
... scene , gave us the highest pleasure . We at length reached the spot , whence Milton undoubt- edly took most of his images ; it is on the top of the hill , from which there is a most extensive pros- pect on all sides : the distant ...
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... scene of the terrible and the pathetick ; but this va- luable curiosity was unfortunately lost in a ship- wreck ... scenes as graceful and sublime as can be met with in the poems of the Grecian and Roman bards for , in the words of Mr ...
... scene of the terrible and the pathetick ; but this va- luable curiosity was unfortunately lost in a ship- wreck ... scenes as graceful and sublime as can be met with in the poems of the Grecian and Roman bards for , in the words of Mr ...
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Seite 53 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Seite 234 - ... that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 24 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the...
Seite 52 - Job a brief model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be followed,* which, in them that know art and use judgement, is no transgression, but an enriching of art ; and lastly, what king or knight, before the Conquest, might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero...
Seite 190 - After some common discourses had passed between us, he called for a manuscript of his ; which, being brought, he delivered to me, bidding me take it home with me and read it at my leisure; and when I had so done, return it to him with my judgment thereupon. When I came home, and had set myself to read it, I found it was that excellent poem which he entitled
Seite 52 - 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...
Seite 245 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason ; and to servitude reduce Man, till then free. Therefore, since...
Seite 47 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Seite 53 - But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable.
Seite 313 - Thou, therefore, that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, parent of angels and men ! next, thee I implore, omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting Love...