Autobiography of John Milton, Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 17
Page xxxiii
... matter which I have diligently sought for and pursued through many a long and tedious treatise . result is , the full - length portrait , drawn by his own hand , of the man and the poet , —that is , of him who has given us ' Comus ' and ...
... matter which I have diligently sought for and pursued through many a long and tedious treatise . result is , the full - length portrait , drawn by his own hand , of the man and the poet , —that is , of him who has given us ' Comus ' and ...
Page 4
... matter methought I loved indeed , but as my age then was , so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets , whereof the schools are not scarce , whom both for the pleasing sound of their numerous ( harmonious ) writing ...
... matter methought I loved indeed , but as my age then was , so I understood them ; others were the smooth elegiac poets , whereof the schools are not scarce , whom both for the pleasing sound of their numerous ( harmonious ) writing ...
Page 30
... matters , and was such an impediment and burden . among the precipitous difficulties of the Arts , that , losing all hope of continuing my quiet , I began sorrowfully to think how far off I was from that tranquillity which letters first ...
... matters , and was such an impediment and burden . among the precipitous difficulties of the Arts , that , losing all hope of continuing my quiet , I began sorrowfully to think how far off I was from that tranquillity which letters first ...
Page 34
... matters of public debatement in this book I should give attendance first , but that I fear it would but harm the truth for me to reason in her behalf , so long as I should suffer my honest es- timation to lie unpurged from these ...
... matters of public debatement in this book I should give attendance first , but that I fear it would but harm the truth for me to reason in her behalf , so long as I should suffer my honest es- timation to lie unpurged from these ...
Page 39
... a way not often trod , acquaint ye He is here imitating a passage in Demosthenes ' speech against Æschines . ? He does not say it is , but only makes use of the à fortiori argu- ment . with the sum of my thoughts in this matter ,
... a way not often trod , acquaint ye He is here imitating a passage in Demosthenes ' speech against Æschines . ? He does not say it is , but only makes use of the à fortiori argu- ment . with the sum of my thoughts in this matter ,
Other editions - View all
Autobiography of John Milton: Or Milton's Life in His Own Words John Milton,James J. G. Graham No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
Areopagitica AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PASSAGES beauty blind cause Charles Diodati Church civil Comus Confuter COWARNE crown 8vo dark death delight Discipline of Divorce divine Doctrine and Discipline Edition EDITOR'S PREFACE Elegy eloquence enemies English EPIC esteem Everard eyes father favour feel friends glory Gorlois Greek hast hath heaven honour hope Hugo Grotius John Milton king L'Allegro labour Latin learned lest Letter liberty loss of sight Lycidas Martin Bucer Mary Powell Masson mind Muses nature never night noble occasion opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace person Petrarch Phineus poem poet Portrait praise present Quintus Hortensius readers reason religion Roundhead Salmasius Samson Agonistes Second Defence sing slander Smectymnuus Sonnet soon speak studies Sylv thee things Thomas Young thou thought tion tongue Treatise true truth verses virtue wherein whereof wise wish witness wont words write written youth
Popular passages
Page 114 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 85 - 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 83 - ... 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 157 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 161 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 158 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges: hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 170 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 161 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immoveable till peace obtain'd from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration ; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress...
Page 155 - Purification in the 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.
Page 171 - God of our fathers ! what is Man, That thou towards him with hand so various — Or might I say contrarious...