Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, 1–2. köideJ. Parsons, 1796 |
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... soon in- terrupted in the cradle . " By not observing an excellent maxim * in the above advice , he incurred great danger by disput- ing against the Superstition of the Church of Rome , within the verge of the Vatican § . Having ...
... soon in- terrupted in the cradle . " By not observing an excellent maxim * in the above advice , he incurred great danger by disput- ing against the Superstition of the Church of Rome , within the verge of the Vatican § . Having ...
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... soon dismissed him . He was attacked in a pamphlet entitled " Divorce at Pleasure , " and in " An Answer to the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; " which latter was licensed and recommended by Mr. Joseph Caryl , the famous commenta ...
... soon dismissed him . He was attacked in a pamphlet entitled " Divorce at Pleasure , " and in " An Answer to the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; " which latter was licensed and recommended by Mr. Joseph Caryl , the famous commenta ...
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... soon wrought upon his generous nature , and procured a happy reconciliation , with an act of oblivion for all that was past * . -Soon his heart relented Tow'rds her , his life so late and sole delight , Now at his feet submissive in ...
... soon wrought upon his generous nature , and procured a happy reconciliation , with an act of oblivion for all that was past * . -Soon his heart relented Tow'rds her , his life so late and sole delight , Now at his feet submissive in ...
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... soon superseded by Waller's being laid aside when the new modelling of the army took place . On the death of the King several of the Pres- byterians declaimed against the execution ; and asserting that the person of the king was sacred ...
... soon superseded by Waller's being laid aside when the new modelling of the army took place . On the death of the King several of the Pres- byterians declaimed against the execution ; and asserting that the person of the king was sacred ...
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... the Rump Parliament , until the Restoration of Charles II .; and , without doubt , says Bishop Newton , a better Latin pen could not have been found in the kingdom . Soon after the death of the King , a book XX THE LIFE OF.
... the Rump Parliament , until the Restoration of Charles II .; and , without doubt , says Bishop Newton , a better Latin pen could not have been found in the kingdom . Soon after the death of the King , a book XX THE LIFE OF.
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Page 3 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 74 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 74 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...