The life of Milton. To which are added Conjectures on the origin of Paradise lost: with an Appendix. By W. Hailey [sic].1799 |
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... Taffo ; and which two engaging biographers of later date , the Abbé de Sade and Mr. Mason , have carried to greater perfection in their respective memoirs of Petrarch and of Gray . By weaving into their narrative selections of verfe and ...
... Taffo ; and which two engaging biographers of later date , the Abbé de Sade and Mr. Mason , have carried to greater perfection in their respective memoirs of Petrarch and of Gray . By weaving into their narrative selections of verfe and ...
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... Taffo and Marini ; they have both left poetical memorials of their efteem for the Mar- quis , who acquired his title as a foldier in the service of Spain , but retiring early , with con- fiderable wealth , to Naples , his native city ...
... Taffo and Marini ; they have both left poetical memorials of their efteem for the Mar- quis , who acquired his title as a foldier in the service of Spain , but retiring early , with con- fiderable wealth , to Naples , his native city ...
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... Taffo ad- dreffed to his courteous and liberal friend , two are very beautiful ; but even these are furpaffed , both in energy and tenderness , by the following conclufion of a poem , infcribed to Manfo , by Milton . Diis dilecte fenex ...
... Taffo ad- dreffed to his courteous and liberal friend , two are very beautiful ; but even these are furpaffed , both in energy and tenderness , by the following conclufion of a poem , infcribed to Manfo , by Milton . Diis dilecte fenex ...
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... Taffo ; the friend who had cherished that great and afflicted poet under his roof in a season of his mental calamity , had reftored his health , re - animated his fancy , and given a religious turn to the lateft efforts of his majestic ...
... Taffo ; the friend who had cherished that great and afflicted poet under his roof in a season of his mental calamity , had reftored his health , re - animated his fancy , and given a religious turn to the lateft efforts of his majestic ...
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... Taffo , and , in the estimation of Englishmen , his fuperior . From Naples it was the defign of Milton to pass into Sicily and Greece ; but receiving intelli- gence of the civil war in England , he felt it in- confiftent with his ...
... Taffo , and , in the estimation of Englishmen , his fuperior . From Naples it was the defign of Milton to pass into Sicily and Greece ; but receiving intelli- gence of the civil war in England , he felt it in- confiftent with his ...
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The Life of Milton. to Which Are Added Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise ... William Hayley Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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Side 77 - ... 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...
Side 79 - ... 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...
Side 61 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Side 175 - 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.
Side 81 - And long it •was not after, when 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...
Side 238 - I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning : for some years as I went from time to time to visit him , in a parcel of ten , twenty , or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing...
Side 78 - ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth...
Side 23 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Side 78 - 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, 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...
Side 65 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.