The Prose Works of John Milton...H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Page i
... nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto undertaken to set forth in order the events of Milton's life ...
... nature and heroic sentiments of a man , in the brightness and continuance of whose fame every Englishman is in- terested . However this may be , few of those who have hitherto undertaken to set forth in order the events of Milton's life ...
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 ...
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... 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 ...
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