The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1871 |
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... thought , by subduing into praise and admiration whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to ' owe anything to insolent wealth ; or , if ...
... thought , by subduing into praise and admiration whole masses of those whom fortune may have blindly thrust before him . And therefore the true poet scorns to be a parasite , scorns to ' owe anything to insolent wealth ; or , if ...
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... thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith the Eternal Wisdom , daily his delight , playing always before him . ' And to him ...
... thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith the Eternal Wisdom , daily his delight , playing always before him . ' And to him ...
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... thought , in which the beauty of the gentler spirit exercises its soothing influence over man's sterner and rougher ... thoughts , without cure , must needs be to him , if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy , a daily ...
... thought , in which the beauty of the gentler spirit exercises its soothing influence over man's sterner and rougher ... thoughts , without cure , must needs be to him , if especially his complexion incline him to melancholy , a daily ...
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... thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths , violence , rapine , oppression of honest men , persecution to the death for conscience sake , pillaging and wasting the land with fire and sword , were acts unlawful , acts which laid ...
... thought that falsehood , perfidy , breach of oaths , violence , rapine , oppression of honest men , persecution to the death for conscience sake , pillaging and wasting the land with fire and sword , were acts unlawful , acts which laid ...
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... thought to be enhanced by the crowding hither of strangers from distant countries , to be in- structed in our learning and theological arts , is rendered doubly bright now , by the pilgrimage which all free and noble spirits , that ...
... thought to be enhanced by the crowding hither of strangers from distant countries , to be in- structed in our learning and theological arts , is rendered doubly bright now , by the pilgrimage which all free and noble spirits , that ...
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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...