The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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... unfulfilled . Aubrey himself , now a poor man , but industrious in gossip as ever , undertakes what Marvel had promised ; and , accordingly , among the mass of papers entitled Minutes of Lives , which he sent to Wood PREFACE . IX.
... unfulfilled . Aubrey himself , now a poor man , but industrious in gossip as ever , undertakes what Marvel had promised ; and , accordingly , among the mass of papers entitled Minutes of Lives , which he sent to Wood PREFACE . IX.
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... sent to Wood in 1680 , and which Wood used in his " Athenæ and Fasti , " a space was assigned to Milton larger than to almost any other of the numerous celebrities whom Aubrey had included in his researches . Aubrey was a credulous ...
... sent to Wood in 1680 , and which Wood used in his " Athenæ and Fasti , " a space was assigned to Milton larger than to almost any other of the numerous celebrities whom Aubrey had included in his researches . Aubrey was a credulous ...
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... sent for the scrivener to draw up a marriage - settlement : " We'll pass the business privately and well . Send for your daughter by your servant here : My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently . " We have also had specimens of the ...
... sent for the scrivener to draw up a marriage - settlement : " We'll pass the business privately and well . Send for your daughter by your servant here : My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently . " We have also had specimens of the ...
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... sent for , " as in the " Taming of the Shrew , " much of their business was carried on in their own " shops , " the furniture of which was much the same as that of modern lawyers ' offices - a pew or chief desk for the master , infe ...
... sent for , " as in the " Taming of the Shrew , " much of their business was carried on in their own " shops , " the furniture of which was much the same as that of modern lawyers ' offices - a pew or chief desk for the master , infe ...
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... sent to him there . Except from Aubrey , however , we hear nothing of such a schoolmaster in Essex . The only teacher of Milton of whom we have a distinct account from himself as one of his maste.s before he went to a regular grammar ...
... sent to him there . Except from Aubrey , however , we hear nothing of such a schoolmaster in Essex . The only teacher of Milton of whom we have a distinct account from himself as one of his maste.s before he went to a regular grammar ...
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Page 518 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 457 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 520 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Page 490 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err: there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Page 454 - Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.
Page 167 - Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine : Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew. So when the sun in bed, Curtained with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave, The flocking shadows pale Troop to the infernal jail, Each fettered ghost slips to his several grave, And the yellow-skirted fays Fly after the night-steeds, leaving their moon-loved maze.
Page 453 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 519 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 487 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Page 495 - Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green, That in the channel strays; Whilst from off the waters fleet Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.