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Page vi
... give : but the poet , whose lips the seraphim have touched with fire snatched from the altar , will never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can ...
... give : but the poet , whose lips the seraphim have touched with fire snatched from the altar , will never mistake for greatness the mere possession of the trappings of state , or confound regal pomp with genuine grandeur , which can ...
Page vii
... give birth to the vi- tuperation and satire which he feels struggling to leap forth from his brain , and strangle his ill - paid eulogies . Nature never designed the muses to be the hand - maids of despotism ; nor can their ser- vant ...
... give birth to the vi- tuperation and satire which he feels struggling to leap forth from his brain , and strangle his ill - paid eulogies . Nature never designed the muses to be the hand - maids of despotism ; nor can their ser- vant ...
Page ix
... give birth to them , some calm and tranquil retreat , where he may compose him- self , and for the time be free from contention and solicitude . But a wholly retired and contempla- tive life , is fatal to poetry of every kind . For even ...
... give birth to them , some calm and tranquil retreat , where he may compose him- self , and for the time be free from contention and solicitude . But a wholly retired and contempla- tive life , is fatal to poetry of every kind . For even ...
Page xiii
... give some account . In performing this duty , besides the difficulties which may be inherent in the subject itself , I feel that I shall have to encounter others of a peculiarly stubborn kind . To the public generally , many at least ...
... give some account . In performing this duty , besides the difficulties which may be inherent in the subject itself , I feel that I shall have to encounter others of a peculiarly stubborn kind . To the public generally , many at least ...
Page xlii
... give breathing time to the reader , - for he required none himself , -other subordinate questions are introduced and discussed pleasantly ; or , perhaps , Salmasius , then esteemed a giant in literature , is for sport - sake tossed ...
... give breathing time to the reader , - for he required none himself , -other subordinate questions are introduced and discussed pleasantly ; or , perhaps , Salmasius , then esteemed a giant in literature , is for sport - sake tossed ...
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Page 181 - We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Page 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 234 - Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 241 - 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 144 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 237 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 180 - 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 201 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Page lxxxiii - 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 lxxxiii - ... 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...