Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes and analyses by S. Manning |
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... virtue and piety , -which were so wonderfully combined in his character . John Milton seems to have given very early indica- tions of his genius . At the age of ten he had already begun to write poetry ; and his father , as though with ...
... virtue and piety , -which were so wonderfully combined in his character . John Milton seems to have given very early indica- tions of his genius . At the age of ten he had already begun to write poetry ; and his father , as though with ...
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... virtue , freedom , power . Thy soul was like a star , and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea . Pure as the naked heavens , -- majestic , free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way , In cheerful godliness ...
... virtue , freedom , power . Thy soul was like a star , and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea . Pure as the naked heavens , -- majestic , free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way , In cheerful godliness ...
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... virtues and graces that God had given him in great measure before ; although the same Sulpitius write that he was nothing tainted or altered in his habit , diet , or personal ... virtue and godliness , 10 OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND .
... virtues and graces that God had given him in great measure before ; although the same Sulpitius write that he was nothing tainted or altered in his habit , diet , or personal ... virtue and godliness , 10 OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND .
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... virtue and godliness , as a thing of greater purity than they need , and the search of divine knowledge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what the prelates desire , that when ...
... virtue and godliness , as a thing of greater purity than they need , and the search of divine knowledge as a mystery too high for their capacities , and only for churchmen to meddle with ; which is what the prelates desire , that when ...
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... virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excel- lence in ...
... virtue to order well one house : but to govern a nation piously and justly , which only is to say happily , is for a spirit of the greatest size , and divinest mettle . And certainly of no less a mind , nor of less excel- lence in ...
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Page li - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 103 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 247 - For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Page 269 - Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 261 - ... Peace be to this house. 6 And if the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give : for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. 8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you; 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Page 47 - 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 49 - ... 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 296 - And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 258 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 84 - 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...