The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page iii
... Nature never designed the muses to be the handmaids of despotism ; nor can their servant , without betraying his high trust , touch the lyre they have placed in his hands for any but who practise virtue . Milton , as he ought ...
... Nature never designed the muses to be the handmaids of despotism ; nor can their servant , without betraying his high trust , touch the lyre they have placed in his hands for any but who practise virtue . Milton , as he ought ...
Page iv
... camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the iv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... camps , or senates , or crowded cities , the spirit which makes him what he is . It constitutes the very essence of his nature . He cannot lose it . Over whatever he does it will cast a glory that shall dignify the iv EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Page v
... nature and tendency , and designed to conduct a being endowed with lofty intellectual faculties towards that high and glorious moral condition , which constitutes here below the per- fection of his nature , and the ultimate aim of his ...
... nature and tendency , and designed to conduct a being endowed with lofty intellectual faculties towards that high and glorious moral condition , which constitutes here below the per- fection of his nature , and the ultimate aim of his ...
Page vii
... nature , however , gifted me with but a tithe of the eloquence which the author of these now obscure works possessed , I should not despair of making good his claim to stand at the head of our prose literature , instead of confining ...
... nature , however , gifted me with but a tithe of the eloquence which the author of these now obscure works possessed , I should not despair of making good his claim to stand at the head of our prose literature , instead of confining ...
Page xiii
... nature , bent as now appears , More to the part sinister , from me drawn , Well if thrown out , as supernumerary To my just number found . O , why did God , Creator wise , that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at ...
... nature , bent as now appears , More to the part sinister , from me drawn , Well if thrown out , as supernumerary To my just number found . O , why did God , Creator wise , that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine , create at ...
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