Milton's Eyesight and the Chronology of His WorksFolcroft Library Editions, 1924 - 50 páginas The author, in a landmark study, traces the advancing deterioration of Milton's eyesight & relates significant passages in his works to various stages in his loss of vision. Presents documentary evidence identifying the poet's eye trouble as albinotic vision & glaucoma. |
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Página 15 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 25 - For such is the order of God's enlightening his church, to dispense and deal out by degrees his beam, so as our earthly eyes may best sustain it. Neither is God appointed and confined, where and out of what place these his chosen shall be first heard to speak...
Página 49 - Since first this subject for heroic song Pleased me long choosing, and beginning late, Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars, hitherto the only argument Heroic deemed...
Página 24 - Geneva, framed and fabricked already to our hands. Yet when the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements. What a collusion is this, whenas we are exhorted by the wise man to use diligence, to seek for wisdom as for hidden treasures early and late, that another order shall enjoin us to know nothing but by statute?
Página 6 - ... when I recall to mind at last, after so many dark ages, wherein the huge overshadowing train of error had almost swept all the stars out of the firmament of the church ; how the bright and blissful Reformation (by divine power) struck through the black and settled night of ignorance and antichristian tyranny, methinks a sovereign and reviving joy must needs rush into the bosom of him that reads or hears; and the sweet odour of the returning Gospel imbathe his soul with the fragrancy of heaven.
Página 17 - Zeal, whose substance is ethereal, arming in complete diamond, ascends his fiery chariot, drawn with two blazing meteors, figured like beasts, but of a higher breed than any the Zodiac yields, resembling two of those four which Ezekiel and St. John saw ; the one visaged like a lion, to express power, high authority, and indignation ; the other of countenance like a man, to cast derision and scorn upon perverse...
Página 15 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Página 37 - The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft : Nor more ; but fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.
Página 24 - The punishing of wits enhances their authority," saith the Viscount St. Albans, "and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the faces of them who seek to tread it out.
Página 37 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Milton's Eyesight and the Chronology of His Works Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis (Dorpatensis).: Humaniora Volumen5,Tema 1 de Dorpat. Univ. Acta et commentationes Eesti Vabariigi Tartu Ülikooli Toimetused, B |
| Autor | Heinrich Mutschmann |
| Editor | Folcroft Library Editions, 1924 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 27 Jun. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0841466920, 9780841466920 |
| Largo | 50 páginas |
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