Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise LostJames, John, and Paul Knapton, 1734 - 546 pages |
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... and Thought of Almoft Any thing Elfe , can stop me ' till I come to my Journey's End , and Finish the Prefent Study to the Utmost I am Able . This Laft Claufe fhows fhows alfo his Exactnefs and Care , without Which That viii.
... and Thought of Almoft Any thing Elfe , can stop me ' till I come to my Journey's End , and Finish the Prefent Study to the Utmost I am Able . This Laft Claufe fhows fhows alfo his Exactnefs and Care , without Which That viii.
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... Utmost of my Pow- er . for if I , whether by a Poorness of Na- ture , or by Some Fate , am So Made that I can not be ever Able , with all my Contention and Ardent Labour to Emerge to that Dear Splendour and Height of Glory , yet Sure ...
... Utmost of my Pow- er . for if I , whether by a Poorness of Na- ture , or by Some Fate , am So Made that I can not be ever Able , with all my Contention and Ardent Labour to Emerge to that Dear Splendour and Height of Glory , yet Sure ...
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... Utmost of his Abilities on the Side where He judg'd Truth was . if any had faid to him as the Elder Bro- ther of David faid to that Stripling . 1 Sam . xvii . 28 , 29. Why cameft thou down Hither ? and with Whom haft thou left thofe few ...
... Utmost of his Abilities on the Side where He judg'd Truth was . if any had faid to him as the Elder Bro- ther of David faid to that Stripling . 1 Sam . xvii . 28 , 29. Why cameft thou down Hither ? and with Whom haft thou left thofe few ...
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... Worthy of That Name . ' tis Profaick Verfe . Argument , Hiftory , even Oratory it Self is not Allow'd the Gaudinefs and Splendour which Poetry demands ; but should an Orator Deck Himfelf with the Utmost of Thefe , without the 2 Deck clv.
... Worthy of That Name . ' tis Profaick Verfe . Argument , Hiftory , even Oratory it Self is not Allow'd the Gaudinefs and Splendour which Poetry demands ; but should an Orator Deck Himfelf with the Utmost of Thefe , without the 2 Deck clv.
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Jonathan Richardson. Deck Himfelf with the Utmost of Thefe , without the Mufick of Numerous Verfe he would not be a Poet ; for tho ' Verfe Alone is not Poetry , ' tis , ftrictly speaking , Effential to it . as We are Most Eafily Led , or ...
Jonathan Richardson. Deck Himfelf with the Utmost of Thefe , without the Mufick of Numerous Verfe he would not be a Poet ; for tho ' Verfe Alone is not Poetry , ' tis , ftrictly speaking , Effential to it . as We are Most Eafily Led , or ...
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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.