Selections from the Prose Works of John Milton: With Critical Remarks and ElucidationsHurst and Blackett, 1870 - 338 pages |
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... turn his at- tention to them , he there often discovered sentences of such transcendent excellence that they appeared ' written as if an angel had held the pen . ' We be- lieve that angels do guide the pen of those who , how- ever ...
... turn his at- tention to them , he there often discovered sentences of such transcendent excellence that they appeared ' written as if an angel had held the pen . ' We be- lieve that angels do guide the pen of those who , how- ever ...
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... , and the maiden draws near in the strength of unblemished chastity , and her courage waxes strong as she sees " A sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , " 66 and she calls upon Echo to tell her of 10 PREFACE .
... , and the maiden draws near in the strength of unblemished chastity , and her courage waxes strong as she sees " A sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night , " 66 and she calls upon Echo to tell her of 10 PREFACE .
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... turn mine eyes , and with your help lift up my hands to that eternal and propitious throne , where nothing is readier than grace and refuge to the distresses of mortal suppliants : and it were a shame to leave these serious thoughts ...
... turn mine eyes , and with your help lift up my hands to that eternal and propitious throne , where nothing is readier than grace and refuge to the distresses of mortal suppliants : and it were a shame to leave these serious thoughts ...
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... turns , not weighing the fathers in the balance of scripture , but scripture in the balance of the fathers . If we ... turn this our discreet and wary usage of them into a blind de- votion towards them , and whatsoever we find written ...
... turns , not weighing the fathers in the balance of scripture , but scripture in the balance of the fathers . If we ... turn this our discreet and wary usage of them into a blind de- votion towards them , and whatsoever we find written ...
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... turning it loose to the havoc of strangers and wolves ? Again , if Christ be the church's husband , expecting her to be presented before Him a pure unspotted virgin , in what could He shew His tender love to her more than in prescribing ...
... turning it loose to the havoc of strangers and wolves ? Again , if Christ be the church's husband , expecting her to be presented before Him a pure unspotted virgin , in what could He shew His tender love to her more than in prescribing ...
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Page 153 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 179 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 164 - 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 20 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 286 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 163 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect, that! bred them.
Page 85 - 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 amorist, 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...
Page 180 - 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 tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 205 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 164 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.