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... praise him nor blame him , ' blamed enough elsewhere , ' but let him altogether speak for himself , defend his own cha- racter and conduct , give his own version of those various points of his history and opinions which we are wont to ...
... praise him nor blame him , ' blamed enough elsewhere , ' but let him altogether speak for himself , defend his own cha- racter and conduct , give his own version of those various points of his history and opinions which we are wont to ...
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... praise ' the sophist Milton , ' which , taken as a whole , exactly expresses my own views , while it shows that that great writer had seized the true view of Milton's character and works . I cannot do better than quote it in extenso ...
... praise ' the sophist Milton , ' which , taken as a whole , exactly expresses my own views , while it shows that that great writer had seized the true view of Milton's character and works . I cannot do better than quote it in extenso ...
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... praise respecting one whose offal should fatten the region - kites . Speak not to me , sir , but begone ! Am I , your kinsman and benefactor , a fit person to be juggled out of my commendation and eulogy , and brought to bedaub such a ...
... praise respecting one whose offal should fatten the region - kites . Speak not to me , sir , but begone ! Am I , your kinsman and benefactor , a fit person to be juggled out of my commendation and eulogy , and brought to bedaub such a ...
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... praise , and by that could esteem them- selves worthiest to love those high perfections which under one or other name they took to cele- brate ; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature , which is not wont to be ...
... praise , and by that could esteem them- selves worthiest to love those high perfections which under one or other name they took to cele- brate ; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature , which is not wont to be ...
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... praises . ' Nor blame it , readers , in those years to propose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dispo- sitions above other things in this life have some- times preferred . For by the firm settling of these persuasions I became ...
... praises . ' Nor blame it , readers , in those years to propose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dispo- sitions above other things in this life have some- times preferred . For by the firm settling of these persuasions I became ...
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Page 155 - And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in...
Page 114 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 83 - 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 hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 77 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave, something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 170 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 81 - ... 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 ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 157 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 161 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 158 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges: hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 161 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immoveable till peace obtain'd from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration ; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress...