An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an Introduction to Paradise LostChapman and Hall, 1855 - 484 頁 |
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第 vii 頁
... expression to their opinions . Had I devoted that time and labour to modern literature , the result might have been widely different . The present volume may perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve ...
... expression to their opinions . Had I devoted that time and labour to modern literature , the result might have been widely different . The present volume may perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve ...
第 xi 頁
... expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been accustomed to be content with the silent approbation of my own mind . Conscious then of having exerted myself to the utmost of my powers to do ...
... expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been accustomed to be content with the silent approbation of my own mind . Conscious then of having exerted myself to the utmost of my powers to do ...
第 101 頁
... expressions . In his third letter to him , written at Horton , December 4 , 1634 , he returns him his thanks for a copy of Hendecasyllabics , more pre- cious , he says , than gold ; and , with great modesty , sends him in return his ...
... expressions . In his third letter to him , written at Horton , December 4 , 1634 , he returns him his thanks for a copy of Hendecasyllabics , more pre- cious , he says , than gold ; and , with great modesty , sends him in return his ...
第 119 頁
... expression in various ways ; and by this and some acts of insub- ordination he may have drawn on himself the indignation of Dr. Bainbridge , the Master , who is said to have been a strict discipli- narian , and who was probably a narrow ...
... expression in various ways ; and by this and some acts of insub- ordination he may have drawn on himself the indignation of Dr. Bainbridge , the Master , who is said to have been a strict discipli- narian , and who was probably a narrow ...
第 131 頁
... expressing a wish to have it returned , replied , that " his Lordship's whole estate should not repurchase it ; " and when his lodgings in Co- vent Garden took fire , he walked calmly out of the house with this picture in his hand ...
... expressing a wish to have it returned , replied , that " his Lordship's whole estate should not repurchase it ; " and when his lodgings in Co- vent Garden took fire , he walked calmly out of the house with this picture in his hand ...
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第 377 頁 - 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 midday beam, purging and unsealing her long-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, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
第 477 頁 - He made darkness his secret place ; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
第 353 頁 - 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...
第 355 頁 - ... 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...
第 368 頁 - 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 wayfaring Christian.
第 480 頁 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
第 355 頁 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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...
第 296 頁 - For so, to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise ; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled: Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides...
第 365 頁 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem, that is a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things, not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
第 124 頁 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her gain'd...