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... proved by the fact that he did not try to force the Muse's favors , and desisted after that attempt . His lit- erary ambition centered in his son , and his discernment and disinterestedness cannot be overpraised . He was con- vinced ...
... proved by the fact that he did not try to force the Muse's favors , and desisted after that attempt . His lit- erary ambition centered in his son , and his discernment and disinterestedness cannot be overpraised . He was con- vinced ...
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... proves , nor that of his comrades , as is visible in the opening sentences of the first of his Prolusiones . And yet , when he left the Uni- versity in 1632 , he had conquered : he went regretted by many , admired by all . " This change ...
... proves , nor that of his comrades , as is visible in the opening sentences of the first of his Prolusiones . And yet , when he left the Uni- versity in 1632 , he had conquered : he went regretted by many , admired by all . " This change ...
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... proved to be right ; his trust in destiny was not vain . From that struggle which was so bitter to his heart , he drew the very substance of Paradise Lost . knowing it , he prepared in his sacrifice the richest h of his future glory ...
... proved to be right ; his trust in destiny was not vain . From that struggle which was so bitter to his heart , he drew the very substance of Paradise Lost . knowing it , he prepared in his sacrifice the richest h of his future glory ...
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... proved wrong before a tribunal which admitted that sort of proof . Mil- ton believed in the efficacy of his efforts in this field ; his contemporaries did also , and therefore he was right : he produced much of the impression he wanted ...
... proved wrong before a tribunal which admitted that sort of proof . Mil- ton believed in the efficacy of his efforts in this field ; his contemporaries did also , and therefore he was right : he produced much of the impression he wanted ...
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... proving of his general policy , will condemn him because of his religious measures . Sir , Amidst those deep and retired thoughts , which , with every man Christianly instructed , ought to be most frequent of God , and of his miraculous ...
... proving of his general policy , will condemn him because of his religious measures . Sir , Amidst those deep and retired thoughts , which , with every man Christianly instructed , ought to be most frequent of God , and of his miraculous ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...