The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Volume 17Avil Printing Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 8
... death . I then became anxious to visit foreign parts , and particularly Italy . My father gave his consent , and I left home with one servant . Milton , in his Second Defence , written at forty- five , describes himself as he had been ...
... death . I then became anxious to visit foreign parts , and particularly Italy . My father gave his consent , and I left home with one servant . Milton , in his Second Defence , written at forty- five , describes himself as he had been ...
Pagina 21
... death of his wife , who left him three daughters , the oldest being only seven years old . Of these daughters a few words will be said hereafter . Milton was afterward twice married , in 1655 to Elizabeth Woodcock , who fifteen months ...
... death of his wife , who left him three daughters , the oldest being only seven years old . Of these daughters a few words will be said hereafter . Milton was afterward twice married , in 1655 to Elizabeth Woodcock , who fifteen months ...
Pagina 23
... death , if the ordinary magis- trate hath neglected to do it . This tractate goes on to argue at length that kings are accountable to law ; that the right to change their rulers rests in the people ; and the right of tyrannicide belongs ...
... death , if the ordinary magis- trate hath neglected to do it . This tractate goes on to argue at length that kings are accountable to law ; that the right to change their rulers rests in the people ; and the right of tyrannicide belongs ...
Pagina 24
... death he left about £ 1,000 ( $ 17,500 ) to his widow . Milton's eyesight began to fail perceptibly as early as 1641 - first in one eye and then in the other - and in 1655 , shortly after the completion of his Defence of the English ...
... death he left about £ 1,000 ( $ 17,500 ) to his widow . Milton's eyesight began to fail perceptibly as early as 1641 - first in one eye and then in the other - and in 1655 , shortly after the completion of his Defence of the English ...
Pagina 31
... death of Jesus - which was in a manner involuntary- but by his voluntary obedience to the divine law in resisting the temptations of the Arch - Enemy of God and man ; that as Paradise was lost through the disobedience of one man , so it ...
... death of Jesus - which was in a manner involuntary- but by his voluntary obedience to the divine law in resisting the temptations of the Arch - Enemy of God and man ; that as Paradise was lost through the disobedience of one man , so it ...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ... John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1906 |
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ... John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1899 |
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 17 John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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Pagina 22 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Pagina 128 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Pagina 184 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Pagina 24 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Pagina 16 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest.
Pagina 16 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Pagina 22 - For 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.
Pagina 183 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Pagina 22 - ... seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Pagina 172 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...