Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineB. Perkins, 1828 - 116 pages |
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... moral qualities of a great man are attractions not easily with- stood , and we can hardly serve others or ourselves more , than by recalling to him the attention , which is scattered among inferior topics . In speaking of the ...
... moral qualities of a great man are attractions not easily with- stood , and we can hardly serve others or ourselves more , than by recalling to him the attention , which is scattered among inferior topics . In speaking of the ...
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... moral nature , often escape in an immor- al work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and ...
... moral nature , often escape in an immor- al work , and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good . Poetry has a natural alli- ance with our best affections . It delights in the beauty and ...
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... in its author almost the spiritual energy with which he invests the fallen seraph . Some have doubted whether the moral effect of such delineations of the storms and terrible work- ings of the soul is good ; whether the inter- 24 MILTON .
... in its author almost the spiritual energy with which he invests the fallen seraph . Some have doubted whether the moral effect of such delineations of the storms and terrible work- ings of the soul is good ; whether the inter- 24 MILTON .
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... moral victory , the happiness of disinterested sac- rifices and wide - spread love , the happiness of boundless hope , and of thoughts which wander through eternity . ' Still there are times , when the spirit , oppressed with pain ...
... moral victory , the happiness of disinterested sac- rifices and wide - spread love , the happiness of boundless hope , and of thoughts which wander through eternity . ' Still there are times , when the spirit , oppressed with pain ...
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... moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feeling , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay , he is not spirit - broken . His L ...
... moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility and exaggeration of morbid feeling , which makes so much of modern poetry effeminating . If he is not gay , he is not spirit - broken . His L ...
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Page 87 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 44 - ... 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...
Page 20 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 45 - 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 amourist, 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, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 27 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 84 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 55 - ... in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion, and our country's liberty...
Page 42 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Page 59 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...