The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1806 - Poets, English |
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Page xiii
... nature of the fubject will admit . The other critics in your language feem to this day to have had no other design than to fatisfy their own coun- trymen , without taking any concern about any body else . Though I think that they would ...
... nature of the fubject will admit . The other critics in your language feem to this day to have had no other design than to fatisfy their own coun- trymen , without taking any concern about any body else . Though I think that they would ...
Page xxviii
... natural inclinations , than by the disci- pline of the place . But perhaps I am lefs partial to the place becaufe it detains you , whofe abfence I regret . You rightly obferve that there are too many there who pollute all learning ...
... natural inclinations , than by the disci- pline of the place . But perhaps I am lefs partial to the place becaufe it detains you , whofe abfence I regret . You rightly obferve that there are too many there who pollute all learning ...
Page xxix
... nature in which force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ...
... nature in which force is of moft avail . For why need we wonder if the wethers of our country are born with horns which may batter down cities and towns ? Do you learn to eftimate great characters , not by the quantity of their animal ...
Page xxxiv
... nature of the narrative , you ask me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- fcribe actions and events in a way suited to their dignity and importance , ought to write with a mind ...
... nature of the narrative , you ask me how a writer of hiftory may beft attain that excellence . My opinion is , that he who would de- fcribe actions and events in a way suited to their dignity and importance , ought to write with a mind ...
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... nature , it is a rare chance ; but their devotion moft commonly comes to that queazy temper of lukewarmnefs , that gives a vomit to God himself . But what do we fuffer misfhapen and enormous pre- latifm , as we do , thus to blanch and ...
... nature , it is a rare chance ; but their devotion moft commonly comes to that queazy temper of lukewarmnefs , that gives a vomit to God himself . But what do we fuffer misfhapen and enormous pre- latifm , as we do , thus to blanch and ...
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Page 279 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 121 - 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.
Page 323 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 287 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 288 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys" a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 297 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 322 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 275 - 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.
Page 119 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Page 288 - Tis true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.