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Pàgina 69
... if not absolutely certain that he lost no term ; and by the latter we are assured
that he was not only exempted from punishment during his continuance at
Cambridge , but in that seat of learning was an object of affection and respect .
The The ...
... if not absolutely certain that he lost no term ; and by the latter we are assured
that he was not only exempted from punishment during his continuance at
Cambridge , but in that seat of learning was an object of affection and respect .
The The ...
Pàgina 214
Determined , from his first acquaintance with the struggles of his country , to
devote himself to her service , he did not hesitate with respect Know that the Son
of heaven's eternal King , By holy sages sung , he dares to sing ; All meanly
wrapt in ...
Determined , from his first acquaintance with the struggles of his country , to
devote himself to her service , he did not hesitate with respect Know that the Son
of heaven's eternal King , By holy sages sung , he dares to sing ; All meanly
wrapt in ...
Pàgina 354
His ability and erudition are unquestionably proved by his letters , and bis probity
- by his remonstrances against the inconsistency of his friend , Salmasius : for
whom his respect was nearly boundless . With Sarrau it was amicus Socrates sed
...
His ability and erudition are unquestionably proved by his letters , and bis probity
- by his remonstrances against the inconsistency of his friend , Salmasius : for
whom his respect was nearly boundless . With Sarrau it was amicus Socrates sed
...
Pàgina 372
For this liberal and worthy prelate I feel very unfeigned respect ; but I must protest
against the rashness , for I cannot think it an intention to misrepresent , which has
incited him to this violent paragraph . To refute the incautious charge nothing ...
For this liberal and worthy prelate I feel very unfeigned respect ; but I must protest
against the rashness , for I cannot think it an intention to misrepresent , which has
incited him to this violent paragraph . To refute the incautious charge nothing ...
Pàgina 424
I never , indeed , imagined that , with respect to person , there would be instituted
any competition between me and a cyclops . But my accuser immediately
corrects himself : “ So far , however , is he froin huge , that a more meagre ,
bloodless ...
I never , indeed , imagined that , with respect to person , there would be instituted
any competition between me and a cyclops . But my accuser immediately
corrects himself : “ So far , however , is he froin huge , that a more meagre ,
bloodless ...
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No hem trobat cap ressenya als llocs habituals.
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 252 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Pàgina 151 - 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.
Pàgina 389 - CVRIAC, 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.
Pàgina 394 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Pàgina 151 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what 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 amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Pàgina 507 - 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.
Pàgina 252 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial 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.
Pàgina 100 - Namancos and Bayona's hold ; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth ! And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth...
Pàgina 254 - Methinks I see, in my mind, a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Pàgina 149 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | The Life of John Milton |
| Autor | Charles Symmons |
| Edició | 2 |
| Editor | Nichols and Son, 1810 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 17 Febr. 2006 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 646 pàgines |
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