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... pamphlet- eering , and between May 1641 and the fol- lowing March he had written five pamphlets against Episcopacy , and used an intolerable deal of bad language , which , however ex- cusable in a heated controversialist , ill became ...
... pamphlet- eering , and between May 1641 and the fol- lowing March he had written five pamphlets against Episcopacy , and used an intolerable deal of bad language , which , however ex- cusable in a heated controversialist , ill became ...
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... pamphlet , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce restored to the good of both sexes . He is even said , with his accustomed courage , to have paid atten- tions to a Miss Davis , who is described as a very handsome and witty gentlewoman ...
... pamphlet , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce restored to the good of both sexes . He is even said , with his accustomed courage , to have paid atten- tions to a Miss Davis , who is described as a very handsome and witty gentlewoman ...
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... pamphlet on divorce marks the be- ginning of Milton's mental isolation . No- body had a word to say for it . Episco- palian , Presbyterian , and Independent held his doctrine in as much abhorrence as did the Catholic , and all alike ...
... pamphlet on divorce marks the be- ginning of Milton's mental isolation . No- body had a word to say for it . Episco- palian , Presbyterian , and Independent held his doctrine in as much abhorrence as did the Catholic , and all alike ...
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... pamphlet in ' our English , the language of men ever famous and fore- most in the achievements of liberty , ' ac- complished nothing , and its author must already have thought himself fallen on evil days . In the year 1645 , the year of ...
... pamphlet in ' our English , the language of men ever famous and fore- most in the achievements of liberty , ' ac- complished nothing , and its author must already have thought himself fallen on evil days . In the year 1645 , the year of ...
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... pamphlets . In 1649 Milton became a public servant , receiving the appointment of Latin Secre- tary to the Council of Foreign Affairs . He knew some member of the Committee , who obtained his nomination . His duties were purely clerkly ...
... pamphlets . In 1649 Milton became a public servant , receiving the appointment of Latin Secre- tary to the Council of Foreign Affairs . He knew some member of the Committee , who obtained his nomination . His duties were purely clerkly ...
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Page 106 - Love had he found in huts where poor Men lie : His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Page 50 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 97 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth ! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Page 255 - I've been tossed like the driven foam; But now, proud world ! I'm going home. Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high ; To crowded halls, to court and street ; To frozen hearts and hasting feet ; To those who go, and those who come ; Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home.
Page 101 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 132 - Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last ! On the 'Death of Mr.
Page 26 - And what if the author shall be one so copious of fancy as to have many things well worth the adding come into his mind after licensing, while the book is yet under the press, which not seldom happens to the best and diligentest writers ; and that perhaps a dozen times in one book...
Page 13 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 9 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 279 - Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother-university; Thebes did his rude unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.