An Essay on the Prose of John MiltonG. Binkert, 1895 - 105 strán (strany) |
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adjectives adverbs apostrophe Areop Areopagitica Artikel auxiliary verb Bacon Browne Bullokar chapter Church Government Comm consonant definite article denote Disc discussed Dissol Doct double consonants dropped Early Mn Eikon Ellis English Grammar English tongue Episc examples explains French frequently genitive Hartlib hath Herbert Hist Hobbes Hodges inflections influence instance Jeremy Taylor John John Milton Jörss Latin letters licencing London Master Mätzner meaning Miège Milton Milton's prose nouns omitted orthography pamphlets past participle personal pronoun phonetic spelling plur plural preceding vowel Prelatical preposition present English preterite pronunciation Reason of Church relative rendered by ee rule Samuel Hartlib Saxon genitive sentences short spelt subjunctive substantives suffix superlative syllable syntax Taylor thire tive true writing truth verbs ending vertue vowel warre weak final weak verbs whereof words ending written XVIIth century
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Strana 3 - 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 83 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Strana 95 - 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.
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Strana iii - II Penseroso, and Lycidas are the expression. In the second act he is breathing the foul and heated atmosphere of party passion and religious hate, generating the lurid fires which glare in the battailous canticles of his prose pamphlets. The three great poems, Paradise Lost...
Strana iii - For although a Poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies with his garland and singing robes about him...
Strana 4 - I had from my first years by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father, whom God recompense, been exercised to the tongues, and some sciences, as my age wouH suffer, by sundry masters and teachers both at home and at the schools...