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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... perhaps at that age the couplet was more grateful to my ear than the stanza . The two poems combined to hold me in an ecstasy of delight . Alas ! that such happy days can never return , not even in imagination ! Some time after for in ...
... perhaps at that age the couplet was more grateful to my ear than the stanza . The two poems combined to hold me in an ecstasy of delight . Alas ! that such happy days can never return , not even in imagination ! Some time after for in ...
第 vii 頁
... perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve as a companion and introduction to my own edition of the Poems , it will answer that purpose with any edition . In the First Part , which is purely biographic ...
... perhaps decide the question . Though this volume is chiefly intended to serve as a companion and introduction to my own edition of the Poems , it will answer that purpose with any edition . In the First Part , which is purely biographic ...
第 viii 頁
... to illustrate that poem . Some parts of it may appear to be , and perhaps are , rather illustrative of Scrip- ture . I might say , they are therefore only the more valu- 1 able ; but my real excuse for these , viii PREFACE .
... to illustrate that poem . Some parts of it may appear to be , and perhaps are , rather illustrative of Scrip- ture . I might say , they are therefore only the more valu- 1 able ; but my real excuse for these , viii PREFACE .
第 ix 頁
... perhaps appears to more advan- tage in my pages than he would in those of strict and rigorous truth . But where are such pages to be found ? It has not , I fear , been given to man to be strictly impar- tial in history . In all my works ...
... perhaps appears to more advan- tage in my pages than he would in those of strict and rigorous truth . But where are such pages to be found ? It has not , I fear , been given to man to be strictly impar- tial in history . In all my works ...
第 xi 頁
... perhaps say without presumption that I am almost in- different to criticism : praise cannot elate , or censure de- press me . To the public expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been ...
... perhaps say without presumption that I am almost in- different to criticism : praise cannot elate , or censure de- press me . To the public expression of either , especially the latter , my ear is little used , and I have long been ...
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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...