The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by William HayleyW. Mason, 1810 |
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Side xx
... never so plain- ly demonstrated as in that character that says ' it is great and prevails ' ; and in that sense only fit to be ad- hered to by a prudent man , who will never be kinder to truth than she is to him ; for suffering is a ...
... never so plain- ly demonstrated as in that character that says ' it is great and prevails ' ; and in that sense only fit to be ad- hered to by a prudent man , who will never be kinder to truth than she is to him ; for suffering is a ...
Side xxii
... never fails to embitter life ; and perhaps the source of such contention , ❝teterrima belli " Causa instead of being a fair and faithless Helen , is no- thing more than a particle of grammar in a dead lan- guage . O that the spleen ...
... never fails to embitter life ; and perhaps the source of such contention , ❝teterrima belli " Causa instead of being a fair and faithless Helen , is no- thing more than a particle of grammar in a dead lan- guage . O that the spleen ...
Side xxviii
... never did it add greater purity of heart to that di- vine yet perilous talent , to guide and sanctify its exertion . Those who are best acquainted with the writings and the virtues of my inestimable friend , must be most fervent in ...
... never did it add greater purity of heart to that di- vine yet perilous talent , to guide and sanctify its exertion . Those who are best acquainted with the writings and the virtues of my inestimable friend , must be most fervent in ...
Side 19
... never rose " to works like Paradise Lost . " This is the first of many remarks , re- plete with detraction , in which an illustri- ous author has indulged his spleen against Milton , in a life of the poet , where an ill- subdued ...
... never rose " to works like Paradise Lost . " This is the first of many remarks , re- plete with detraction , in which an illustri- ous author has indulged his spleen against Milton , in a life of the poet , where an ill- subdued ...
Side 20
... never existed two writers more deservedly distin- guished , not only for the energy of their men- tal faculties , but for a generous and devout desire to benefit mankind by their exertion . Yet it must be lamented , and by the lovers of ...
... never existed two writers more deservedly distin- guished , not only for the energy of their men- tal faculties , but for a generous and devout desire to benefit mankind by their exertion . Yet it must be lamented , and by the lovers of ...
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Side 84 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Side 57 - ... grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 108 - 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 frora the pen of some vulgar amourist, 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...
Side 33 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even 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.
Side 104 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Side 130 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Side 229 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Side 104 - ... what king or knight before the Conquest might be chosen, in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
Side 56 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Side 111 - ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught: then, with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...