Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise LostJames, John, and Paul Knapton, 1734 - 546 pages |
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Page xlii
... Darkness , Į fhall Wish I may deferve to be reckon'd among Thofe who Admire and Dwell upon them for their Clearness . and This feems to be the Caufe , why in thofe places of Holy Writ , wherein is Treated of Church - Government , the ...
... Darkness , Į fhall Wish I may deferve to be reckon'd among Thofe who Admire and Dwell upon them for their Clearness . and This feems to be the Caufe , why in thofe places of Holy Writ , wherein is Treated of Church - Government , the ...
Page lxiii
... Darkness the Light of the Face of God Shine the Clearer ; So fhall I prove at the fame time the Moft Weak and the Moft Strong ; Dark - Blind and at the fame time Clear- Sighted ; O Let Me be Confummate in this Weak- nefs ! in This ...
... Darkness the Light of the Face of God Shine the Clearer ; So fhall I prove at the fame time the Moft Weak and the Moft Strong ; Dark - Blind and at the fame time Clear- Sighted ; O Let Me be Confummate in this Weak- nefs ! in This ...
Page lxiv
... Darkness upon Us , fo much by the Dimness of our Eyes ; as by the Shadow of his Protecting Wings . To This I Impute , that my Friends are more Ready and Officious to Serve Me than Before , and more frequently Vifit Me , fome of which ...
... Darkness upon Us , fo much by the Dimness of our Eyes ; as by the Shadow of his Protecting Wings . To This I Impute , that my Friends are more Ready and Officious to Serve Me than Before , and more frequently Vifit Me , fome of which ...
Page lxv
... Darkness , or Charity , with more Eafe , to Forgive Them . I will deny Self the Pleafure of Tranf- eribing More to This Purpose . All his Wri- tings have Interfperft an Odour of Sanctity , not that Cant which was the Character and the ...
... Darkness , or Charity , with more Eafe , to Forgive Them . I will deny Self the Pleafure of Tranf- eribing More to This Purpose . All his Wri- tings have Interfperft an Odour of Sanctity , not that Cant which was the Character and the ...
Page lxxvii
... Darkness that is before Me as well by Night as by Day , seems nearer to the Whitish than the Blackish ; and the Eye , rolling itself a little , feems to admit I know not what little Smallness of Light as through a Chink . Ano- Another ...
... Darkness that is before Me as well by Night as by Day , seems nearer to the Whitish than the Blackish ; and the Eye , rolling itself a little , feems to admit I know not what little Smallness of Light as through a Chink . Ano- Another ...
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Page 514 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page cvii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 528 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page cv - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 513 - And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 529 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page cvii - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 232 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense, I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page xxi - But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.
Page cxxii - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.