An Essay on the Prose of John Milton

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G. Binkert, 1895 - 105 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 4 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Strana 5 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Strana 97 - There is not any burden that some would gladlier post off to another than the charge and care of their religion. There be, who knows not that there be ? of protestants and professors who live and die in as arrant an implicit faith as any lay papist of Loretto.
Strana 4 - ... their golden heads, and shed their purple feathers, his silken braids untwine and slip their knots, and that original and fiery virtue given him by fate all on a sudden goes out, and leaves him undeified and despoiled of all his force ; till finding Anteros at last, he kindles and repairs the 'almost faded ammunition of his deity by the reflection of a coequal and homogeneal fire.
Strana 3 - ... likeness. By them, in their borrowed garb, Love, though not wholly blind, as poets wrong him, yet having but one eye, as being born an archer aiming, and that eye not the quickest in this dark region here below, which is not...
Strana 85 - ... not a plain unthrift of his own hours, is ever likely to succeed them, except he mean to put himself to the salary of a...
Strana 4 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Strana 4 - ... that were used with him, and discerns that this is not his genuine brother, as he imagined; he has no longer the power to hold fellowship with such a personated mate: for straight his arrows...
Strana 60 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Strana v - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him...

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