Poetical Works: Biography of MiltonJohn Macrone, 1835 |
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... Italy , unless his friendship to Charles Deodate be a sign of it ; which I think , looking at the poetical addresses to him , it is not . The nature of Milton's lofty temper , which could not endure submission even to college ...
... Italy , unless his friendship to Charles Deodate be a sign of it ; which I think , looking at the poetical addresses to him , it is not . The nature of Milton's lofty temper , which could not endure submission even to college ...
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... Italy increased this counteraction . Milton left England in 1638 , in his thirtieth year ; was pre- sented to Grotius , at Paris , by Lord Scudamore , the English ambassador ; proceeded to Nice , em- barked for Genoa , and thence ...
... Italy increased this counteraction . Milton left England in 1638 , in his thirtieth year ; was pre- sented to Grotius , at Paris , by Lord Scudamore , the English ambassador ; proceeded to Nice , em- barked for Genoa , and thence ...
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... Italian writers has sometimes infected his English poetry with false ornaments , his Latin verses , both in diction and sentiment , are at least free from gross depravations . " Some of Milton's Latin poems were written in his first ...
... Italian writers has sometimes infected his English poetry with false ornaments , his Latin verses , both in diction and sentiment , are at least free from gross depravations . " Some of Milton's Latin poems were written in his first ...
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... Italian his degenerate speech adorns , That witnesses his mixture with the Goth ; And Palestine's prophetic songs divine . To sum the whole , whate'er the heaven contains , The earth beneath it , and the air between , The rivers and the ...
... Italian his degenerate speech adorns , That witnesses his mixture with the Goth ; And Palestine's prophetic songs divine . To sum the whole , whate'er the heaven contains , The earth beneath it , and the air between , The rivers and the ...
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... Italian , and placed on them his hopes of fame . But in a language which is not our own , we can never equally express our un- borrowed thoughts . In bringing our phraseology to the test , we are driven to the train of mind of others ...
... Italian , and placed on them his hopes of fame . But in a language which is not our own , we can never equally express our un- borrowed thoughts . In bringing our phraseology to the test , we are driven to the train of mind of others ...
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Page 210 - 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.
Page 299 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
Page 208 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note.
Page 208 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 98 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Page 233 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.
Page 95 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense 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 after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 100 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 220 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 17 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.