... Areopagitica: 24 November 1644. Preceded by Illustrative Documents ...1869 - 80 páginas |
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... described in the third chapter of Lord Macaulay's Hiftory of England . At prefent we have only to deal with one particular fashion of dramatic compofition . -the new , grandiloquent , bombaftic , pfeudo - heroic plays , introduced by D ...
... described in the third chapter of Lord Macaulay's Hiftory of England . At prefent we have only to deal with one particular fashion of dramatic compofition . -the new , grandiloquent , bombaftic , pfeudo - heroic plays , introduced by D ...
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... described the Birth of its great Rival , the Carthaginian Commonwealth . Milton with the like Art in his Poem on the Fall of Man , has related the Fall of thofe Angels who are his profeffed Enemies . Besides the many other Beauties in ...
... described the Birth of its great Rival , the Carthaginian Commonwealth . Milton with the like Art in his Poem on the Fall of Man , has related the Fall of thofe Angels who are his profeffed Enemies . Besides the many other Beauties in ...
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... described a Vulcan , that is , a Buffoon among his Gods , and a Therfites among his Mortals . Virgil falls infinitely fhort of Homer in the Cha- racters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect ...
... described a Vulcan , that is , a Buffoon among his Gods , and a Therfites among his Mortals . Virgil falls infinitely fhort of Homer in the Cha- racters of his Poem , both as to their Variety and Novelty . Æneas is indeed a perfect ...
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... described in that [ a ] beautiful Passage of the tenth Book ; and likewise by the Vision , wherein Adam at the clofe of the Poem fees his Off - spring triumphing over his great Enemy , and himself restored to a happier Paradife than ...
... described in that [ a ] beautiful Passage of the tenth Book ; and likewise by the Vision , wherein Adam at the clofe of the Poem fees his Off - spring triumphing over his great Enemy , and himself restored to a happier Paradife than ...
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... described as owning his Adver- fary to be Almighty . Whatever perverfe Interpreta- tion he puts on the Juftice , Mercy , and other Attri- butes of the Supreme Being , he frequently confeffes his Omnipotence , that being the Perfection ...
... described as owning his Adver- fary to be Almighty . Whatever perverfe Interpreta- tion he puts on the Juftice , Mercy , and other Attri- butes of the Supreme Being , he frequently confeffes his Omnipotence , that being the Perfection ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid againſt alſo Angels anſwer Author BAYES beautiful becauſe befides beſt Biſhops Book buſineſs call'd cauſe Chriftian Church Circumftance Clergy Court Criticks deſcribed Deſcription diſcover Dryden Duke of Buckingham edition elſe England English faid fame felf felves feveral fhall fhew fince firft firſt fome fomething ftill fuch fure give greateſt hath Heaven himſelf Homer Honour Houſe Iliad John Selden JOHNS juſt King laſt leaſt licencing London Lord Love Maſter meaſure Milton moft moſt muſt Nature never obferve otherwiſe Paffage Parliament perfons Play pleaſe Poem Poet pray prefent Prince printed puniſhment purpoſe queſtion raiſe Reader reaſon Rehearsal Religion repreſented ſay ſee Selden ſelf ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtill ſuch tell thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought truth Tyrannick Love underſtand uſe Villiers whofe whole William Davenant writ write
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Página 35 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Página 45 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised, and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather ; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Página 10 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Página 69 - What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?
Página 12 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 113 - ... 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.
Página 71 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 67 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 54 - ... legible, whereof three pages would not down at any time in the fairest print, is an imposition which I cannot believe how he that values time, and his own studies, or is but of a sensible nostril, should be able to endure.
Página 56 - ... writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book ? The printer dares not go beyond his...