MiltonClarendon Press, 1907 - 144 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... written I hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ' ( Boswell's Johnson , ed . Hill , iii . 111 ; iv . 34. ) The ' Lives of the Poets ' at once became popular , and their popularity has been permanent . Of all ...
... written I hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ' ( Boswell's Johnson , ed . Hill , iii . 111 ; iv . 34. ) The ' Lives of the Poets ' at once became popular , and their popularity has been permanent . Of all ...
Pàgina ix
... writing of one age rarely satisfies another . But superannuated though some of his criticism may be , there is much in it of per- manent value . ' His criticisms , ' says Macaulay , ' are often excellent , and even when grossly and ...
... writing of one age rarely satisfies another . But superannuated though some of his criticism may be , there is much in it of per- manent value . ' His criticisms , ' says Macaulay , ' are often excellent , and even when grossly and ...
Pàgina 1
... written in so many forms , and with such minute inquiry , that I might perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to ...
... written in so many forms , and with such minute inquiry , that I might perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to ...
Pàgina 3
... written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , 15 remark , ' what I think is true , that Milton was the ...
... written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , 15 remark , ' what I think is true , that Milton was the ...
Pàgina 7
... written in 5 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of Sir John King , Secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his ...
... written in 5 1637 , on the death of Mr. King , the son of Sir John King , Secretary for Ireland in the time of Elizabeth , James , and Charles . King was much a favourite at Cambridge , and many of the wits joined to do honour to his ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 93 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Pàgina 98 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Pàgina 118 - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it, which I modestly, but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, ' Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
Pàgina 101 - 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 deny'd to doe it.
Pàgina 138 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Pàgina 116 - Lombards; if to the instinct of nature and the emboldening of art aught may be trusted, and that there be nothing adverse in our climate or the fate of this age, it haply would be no rashness, from an equal diligence and inclination, to present the like offer in our own ancient stories...
Pàgina 14 - 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 122 - He made me no answer, but sat some time in a muse, then brake off that discourse, and fell upon another subject. After the sickness was over, and the city well cleansed and become safely habitable again, he returned thither.
Pàgina 97 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: Restor'd to the good of both Sexes, From the bondage of Canon Law, and other mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compar'd.
Pàgina 58 - Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform; every man that reads them, reads them with pleasure.