The Works of John Milton, in Verse and Prose, Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author, Volume 3

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W. Pickering, 1851

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Page 140 - to be the meflenger of gladnes and contentment, which is his chief intended bufines, to all mankind, but that they refift and oppofe their own true happinefle. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blaft, it lies not in mans will what he
Page 145 - That what the greateft and choyceft wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and thofe Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Chriftian, might doe for mine : not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content with thefe
Page 144 - to fix all the induftry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiofities the end, that were a toylfom vanity, but to be an interpreter and relater of the beft and fageft things among mine own Citizens throughout this Hand in the mother
Page 272 - of holy Scripture unfolding thofe chafte and high myfteries with timelieft care infus'd, that the body is for the Lord and the Lord for the body, thus alfo I argu'd to my felfe; that if unchaftity in a woman whom Saint Paul termes the glory of man, be
Page 149 - I endure to interrupt the purfuit of no lefle hopes then thefe, and leave a calme and pleafing folitarynes fed with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd fea of noifes and hoars difputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and ftill air of delightfull
Page 270 - it wrought with me, from that time forward their art I ftill applauded, but the men I deplor'd ; and above them all preferr'd the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura who never write but honour of them to whom they devote their verfe, difplaying fublime and pure thoughts, without
Page 148 - Neither doe I think it mame to covnant with any knowing reader, that for fome few yeers yet I may go on truft with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be rays'd from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waft from the pen of fome vulgar
Page 104 - of his Epiftle which is to eftablifh the Churchgovernment with a command. This charge I commit to thee fon Timothy: according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them might'ft war a good warfare. Which is plain enough thus expounded. This charge I commit to thee wherein I now go about to inftrudl thee how thou
Page 136 - of nation, and City of City, for God did vex them with all adverfity. Be ye Jirong therefore, faith he to the reformers of that age, and let not your hands be weake, for your worke Jhall bee rewarded. And in thofe Prophets that liv'd in the times of reformation after the Captivity often doth God
Page 270 - And long it was not after, when I was confirm'd in this opinion, that he who would not be fruftrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him felfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a compofition, and patterne of the beft and honourableft things; not prefuming to

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