The Age of Milton |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 28
Page xxi
... Nature , in its varied fields of investigation , became not only a widely extended \ pursuit but a fashion . And the affectation of theological learning which characterized the scholars and the wits of the reign of Charles the First was ...
... Nature , in its varied fields of investigation , became not only a widely extended \ pursuit but a fashion . And the affectation of theological learning which characterized the scholars and the wits of the reign of Charles the First was ...
Page 4
... natural reserve from sharing freely in the life of the college , he seems , after a time , to have won the respect of many for whose friendship he did not ask , and to have gained a high reputation both for intellectual ability and ...
... natural reserve from sharing freely in the life of the college , he seems , after a time , to have won the respect of many for whose friendship he did not ask , and to have gained a high reputation both for intellectual ability and ...
Page 18
... Nature's full blessings should be well dispensed In unsuperflous even proportion , And she no whit incumber'd with her store ; And then the giver would be better thank'd , His praise due paid ; for swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven ...
... Nature's full blessings should be well dispensed In unsuperflous even proportion , And she no whit incumber'd with her store ; And then the giver would be better thank'd , His praise due paid ; for swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to Heaven ...
Page 23
... nature is mourning for him . Then follow the noble and familiar lines recalling the resolve of the earlier sonnet : ' Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And strictly meditate the ...
... nature is mourning for him . Then follow the noble and familiar lines recalling the resolve of the earlier sonnet : ' Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade , And strictly meditate the ...
Page 37
... nature and function , ' an idiot by breeding , and a solicitor by presumption , ' ' a basest and hungriest inditer , ' ' a boar in the vineyard , ' ' a snout in this pickle , ' an unswilled hogshead , ' ' a brazen ass ; ' nor are these ...
... nature and function , ' an idiot by breeding , and a solicitor by presumption , ' ' a basest and hungriest inditer , ' ' a boar in the vineyard , ' ' a snout in this pickle , ' an unswilled hogshead , ' ' a brazen ass ; ' nor are these ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admirable appeared Areopagitica Arminian beauty became belongs Ben Jonson Bishop Cambridge Cambridge Platonists Carew character Charles chiefly Christ's Christ's College Church Clarendon close College comedy Commonwealth Comus controversy Court Cowley Crashaw D'Avenant death delight divine drama dramatists edition Eikon Basilike elegy England English literature Falkland fancy father Fuller hath heaven Herbert Herrick History Hobbes Holy humour Hydriotaphia imagery influence Jeremy Taylor John Jonson King language later Latin Laud learning literary lived London Long Parliament Lord Lycidas lyrical masque Massinger's Milton Muses Oxford pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament party passage passion perhaps period philosophy plays poem poet poetic poetry political prose published Puritan quaint Religio Medici religion religious Restoration royal royalist Samson Agonistes says song soul spirit style thee theological things Thomas Thomas Fuller thou thought tion tragedy treatise Trinity College verse volume Waller wits writings written
Popular passages
Page 23 - There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 50 - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East. Still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
Page 114 - My gazing soul would dwell an hour, And in those weaker glories spy Some shadows of eternity; Before I taught my tongue to wound My Conscience with a sinful sound, Or had the black art to dispense A several sin to every sense; But felt through all this fleshly dress Bright shoots of everlastingness.
Page 58 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 23 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 9 - 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 Taskmaster's eye.
Page 111 - O thou undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires, By all the eagle in thee, all the dove, By all thy lives and deaths of love, By thy large draughts of intellectual day, And by thy thirsts of love more large than they, By all thy...
Page 124 - ON A GIRDLE THAT which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind : No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.
Page 101 - Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.
Page 24 - ... from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood. Thus sang the uncouth swain to the oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with sandals gray ; He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay...