The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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Page ii
... and subsist , in pride and luxury , on the sweat of other men's brows ? The poetaster , with a base admiration of everything superior to his own mean soul , may celebrate and approve the excesses of ii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... and subsist , in pride and luxury , on the sweat of other men's brows ? The poetaster , with a base admiration of everything superior to his own mean soul , may celebrate and approve the excesses of ii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Page iii
... mean soul , may celebrate and approve the excesses of men in au- thority ; of all , in fact , who have anything to give : but the poet , whose lips the seraphim have touched with fire snatched from the altar , will never mistake for ...
... mean soul , may celebrate and approve the excesses of men in au- thority ; of all , in fact , who have anything to give : but the poet , whose lips the seraphim have touched with fire snatched from the altar , will never mistake for ...
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... means of over - bodying herself , given up justly to fleshly delights , bated her wing apace downwards ; and , finding the ease she had from her visible and sensuous colleague , the body , in performance viii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... means of over - bodying herself , given up justly to fleshly delights , bated her wing apace downwards ; and , finding the ease she had from her visible and sensuous colleague , the body , in performance viii EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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... means , direct or indirect , be gotten to wash over the unsightly bruise of honour . To make men governable in this manner , their precepts mainly tend to break a national spirit and courage , by countenancing open riot , luxury , and ...
... means , direct or indirect , be gotten to wash over the unsightly bruise of honour . To make men governable in this manner , their precepts mainly tend to break a national spirit and courage , by countenancing open riot , luxury , and ...
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... means my intention to enter into an analysis of these , or any other of his works , or to introduce specimens of the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems ...
... means my intention to enter into an analysis of these , or any other of his works , or to introduce specimens of the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems ...
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Page 47 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 484 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page iv - ... in heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, being but so many wild dreams, and their sentiments and language every way worthy of the matter.
Page 495 - Sonnets, Triumphs, and other Poems. Translated into English Verse by various Hands. With a Life of the Poet by Thomas Campbell. With Portrait and 15 Steel Engravings. 5*.
Page 71 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: . for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 69 - They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Page 66 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well.
Page 33 - When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire...
Page 33 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me...