A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... received no answer . Other letters having been treated with the same neglect , he resolved to send the next by a special messenger , that he might be sure it reached its destination . His messenger was dismissed with contempt , and he ...
... received no answer . Other letters having been treated with the same neglect , he resolved to send the next by a special messenger , that he might be sure it reached its destination . His messenger was dismissed with contempt , and he ...
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... received from any man in the discovery of this truth , what time I first undertook it in the " Doctrine and Discipline of Di- vorce , " and had only the infallible grounds of scripture to be my guide ; he who tries the inmost heart ...
... received from any man in the discovery of this truth , what time I first undertook it in the " Doctrine and Discipline of Di- vorce , " and had only the infallible grounds of scripture to be my guide ; he who tries the inmost heart ...
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... received from the presbyteri- ans , on account of these writings , is thought to have done much to alienate him from their cause . But what chiefly and finally resolved him to renounce their * Ibid . p . 243 . d • interests , was their ...
... received from the presbyteri- ans , on account of these writings , is thought to have done much to alienate him from their cause . But what chiefly and finally resolved him to renounce their * Ibid . p . 243 . d • interests , was their ...
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... received from his • Reply of Claudius Salmasius to John Milton , a Posthumous Work . ' The dedication to Charles the Second by his son Claudius , is dated at Dijon , September 1 , 1660. This book , ' says Dr Birch , is written with an ...
... received from his • Reply of Claudius Salmasius to John Milton , a Posthumous Work . ' The dedication to Charles the Second by his son Claudius , is dated at Dijon , September 1 , 1660. This book , ' says Dr Birch , is written with an ...
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... received , and all the wealth of the church not better employed , but swallowed up into a private gulf , was not ere long ashamed to con- fess bankrupt . And now besides the sweetness of of bribery , and other gain , with the love of ...
... received , and all the wealth of the church not better employed , but swallowed up into a private gulf , was not ere long ashamed to con- fess bankrupt . And now besides the sweetness of of bribery , and other gain , with the love of ...
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Page 148 - 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, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame 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...
Page 146 - ... 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 238 - 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...
Page xxx - 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. And that they, who of late, so much blame Deposing, are the men that did it themselves.
Page 145 - ... of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 105 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page viii - Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 10 To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 104 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 172 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Page 138 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.