Milton, Man and ThinkerL. Macveagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 363 sider |
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... CHARACTER IN YOUTH ... 1. Character and family ..... 2. The University and Horton . 3. Early poems . II . THE MAN OF ACTION AND OF PASSION .. 1. Milton , man of action .. 2. The struggle against the bishops .... 3. The first shock ...
... CHARACTER IN YOUTH ... 1. Character and family ..... 2. The University and Horton . 3. Early poems . II . THE MAN OF ACTION AND OF PASSION .. 1. Milton , man of action .. 2. The struggle against the bishops .... 3. The first shock ...
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... character and his ideas for love of the irresistible beauty of his art . Only too often do we open and read his poems with half - smothered prej- udice against him ; and thus we lose much that is im- portant and interesting in them ...
... character and his ideas for love of the irresistible beauty of his art . Only too often do we open and read his poems with half - smothered prej- udice against him ; and thus we lose much that is im- portant and interesting in them ...
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... character in his youth and show how that character brought him into con- flict with the realities of private or public life ; what prob- lems the conflict presented to his intelligence ; what con- ceptions of life it engraved deeply ...
... character in his youth and show how that character brought him into con- flict with the realities of private or public life ; what prob- lems the conflict presented to his intelligence ; what con- ceptions of life it engraved deeply ...
Side xvi
... character , that self- possession so rarely found in company with excessive pride . Whereas Byron probably thought himself fit to be king of Greece , Milton did not believe himself worthy of a commission in the Civil War.2 ― This ...
... character , that self- possession so rarely found in company with excessive pride . Whereas Byron probably thought himself fit to be king of Greece , Milton did not believe himself worthy of a commission in the Civil War.2 ― This ...
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Denis Saurat. MILTON : MAN AND THINKER CHAPTER I THE ELEMENTS OF MILTON'S CHARACTER IN YOUTH T I. CHARACTER AND FAMILY WO essential traits of character can be discerned in Milton from his youth onwards . The first is a varied , lively ...
Denis Saurat. MILTON : MAN AND THINKER CHAPTER I THE ELEMENTS OF MILTON'S CHARACTER IN YOUTH T I. CHARACTER AND FAMILY WO essential traits of character can be discerned in Milton from his youth onwards . The first is a varied , lively ...
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Side 184 - For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Side 74 - ... 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.
Side 263 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Side 77 - 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 mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Side 253 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Side 76 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Side 215 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Side 292 - As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed...
Side 214 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Side 215 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who...