The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page ii
... praises of kings , and abandon the study of civil wisdom to inferior persons ; which was doubtless the notion Plato entertained of poets , when he banished them his commonwealth as advocates of tyranny . But Milton , nurtured from the ...
... praises of kings , and abandon the study of civil wisdom to inferior persons ; which was doubtless the notion Plato entertained of poets , when he banished them his commonwealth as advocates of tyranny . But Milton , nurtured from the ...
Page iii
... 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 distress and lack of virtue ...
... 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 distress and lack of virtue ...
Page vii
... praising penuriously and seldom , because he knew that one good word from his pen was a passport to immortality . Had nature , however , gifted me with but a tithe of the eloquence which the author of these now obscure works possessed ...
... praising penuriously and seldom , because he knew that one good word from his pen was a passport to immortality . Had nature , however , gifted me with but a tithe of the eloquence which the author of these now obscure works possessed ...
Page xx
... praise , countenance , congratulation . To achieve this , the one party must be a magician , or the other party must be fools . The presumption , therefore , à priori , is , that Milton was not a regicide ; in fact , could not be ...
... praise , countenance , congratulation . To achieve this , the one party must be a magician , or the other party must be fools . The presumption , therefore , à priori , is , that Milton was not a regicide ; in fact , could not be ...
Page xxx
... praise ; affirms , that in his domestic government , he was a tyrant , a bad husband , a bad father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning ...
... praise ; affirms , that in his domestic government , he was a tyrant , a bad husband , a bad father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning ...
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