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  The humble Petition of Thousands of well-affected Persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, Hamlets


id: 14380
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  Rulers within the circle of their government have a claim to that which is said of the Deity: they have their centre everywhere and their circumference nowhere


id: 14380
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  a Bill for the continuing and assessing of a Tax for the paying and maintaining of the Militia forces


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id: 14380
author: Masson, David
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  Thirteen more Latin State-Letters of Milton for the Protector (Nos. LXV.-LXXVII.), with Special Account of Count Bundt and the Swedish State-Letters by Milton for the Protector (Nos. XCI.-C.): Morland, last Sixteen State-Letters for Oliver Cromwell (Nos. CXVIII.-CXXXIII), including Two to Charles Gustavus of Sweden, Two on time in 1654, been one interview between the Lord Protector and Fox. Colonel Hacker, having arrested Fox in Leicestershire, had sent him [Footnote 1: Council Order Books of dates given, and of others (e.g. Nov. 4 and Dec. 2, 1656, and Jan. 12 and Feb. 12, 1656-7); _Merc. high State-officers, formally presented to Cromwell, after a long THIRTEEN MORE LATIN STATE-LETTERS OF MILTON FOR THE PROTECTOR (NOS. his Majesty one of Milton''s Latin State Letters in the Protector''s THE RESTORED LONG PARLIAMENT: NEW COUNCIL OF STATE: ACTIVE MEN OF THE THE RESTORED LONG PARLIAMENT: NEW COUNCIL OF STATE: ACTIVE MEN OF THE

title:
  The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time


id: 22286
title: Milton
author: Bailey, John Cann
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  But neither Milton''s nor any other {19} great art makes its main We know far more about Milton than about any other English poet born so coming from a man so proudly truthful as Milton evidently was, they are men call practical life was at last to begin for Milton. The fact is, of course, that Milton, like most men of much within a year of Milton''s death that the blind old regicide''s poem was triumphant completion of so great a plan as the life of Milton. We think to-day of Milton chiefly as the author of _Paradise Lost_, as Milton''s fame have rested upon if he had not lived to write _Paradise Milton who, all his life, blind or seeing, felt {97} the joy and wonder Milton''s greatness is his own. A poet at once so learned and so great as Milton inevitably invited


id: 28434
title: The Astronomy of Milton''s ''Paradise Lost''
author: Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
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  galaxies, universes of stars--suns--the innumerable host of heaven, each immovable centre of the universe, round which the Sun, Moon, planets, other celestial bodies--Sun, Moon, and stars, which would appear to have the Earth and planets in their orbits resides in the Sun. By the orb''s Milton supposes that, as the Earth receives light from the stars, she a great central sun, round which all the systems of stars perform their The conclusion that the stars are orbs resembling our Sun in magnitude Sun is one of a group of stars which occupy a region of the heavens as follows: ''If we regard a pair of stars as forming a double sun, round STAR CLUSTERS.--On observing the heavens on a clear, dark night, there heavens, we have no evidence that he regarded the stars as suns, nor the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars; their functional importance as


id: 17548
title: Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil''s and Milton''s Arts of Verse, &c.
author: Benson, William
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  second Line in the Translation of the beginning of the _Iliad_ _Latin_; which will appear if _Virgil_ is turned into _English_, I _Latin_ Verse there must be in every Line one Foot of three Syllables, an _English_ Verse cannot be compared with the _Latin_ by the Line, or _Latin_ or _English_ Verses here quoted: Upon Enquiry it appears that Pause that _Virgil_ makes his broken Lines in the _Æneid_, which In short there is nothing in Nature that _Virgil''s_ Verse does not of _Virgil_''s Poetry are in these Lines; and you may observe in the Beginning of a Line in rhym''d Verse, which is very well worth Line, stopping at the 4th Foot, to adapt the Measure of the Verse to Verborum_, or the mixing of Sounds of Words in rhym''d Verse. strong, plain Rhyme: And if this is the Case; if _Virgil_''s Verse


id: 16757
title: Life of John Milton
author: Garnett, Richard
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  ---The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes of various authors, ---The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes and a life by the ---The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes and a life by the ---The Poetical Works of John Milton, with life. ---The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a life of the author, ---The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a life of the author, ---The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a life of the author, ---The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton, with life. ---The Poetical Works of John Milton: edited, with introductions, ---The Poetical Works of John Milton; edited, with memoir, ---The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by J. The Prose Works of John Milton; with a life of the author, interspersed ---Milton''s Paradise Lost, with a life of the author [by J.


id: 21431
title: Mary Powell & Deborah''s Diary
author: Manning, Anne
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  father; the domineering, indiscreet mother; the cousin, Rose Agnew, and soe went on, most like Truth and Love that Lookes could speake or Words last alle Night; onlie Mr. _Milton_ sayd he seemed to have got into the stayed at Home." "Really, Mr. _Powell,"_ says _Mother_, "soe seldom as But I think _Mother_ knows not, and I am afeard to tell her, that Mr. _Milton_ hath no House of his owne to carry me to, but onlie Lodgings, and the pleasant Smells, Sightes, and Soundes, alle whereof Mr. _Milton_ enjoyed to the Full as keenlie as I, saying they minded him of woulde jump to see _Forest Hill_ on anie Terms, I soe love alle that --Mr. _Milton_ having stepped out before Supper, came back looking soe --Surelie he will come soone?--I sayd to _Father_ last Night, I wanted hath a Nurserie now, soe cannot come to me, and _Father_ likes not I


id: 21677
title: Milton
author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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  Poets and politics; practical aim of Milton''s prose writings; the of the creed; Milton''s choice of subject; King Arthur; _Paradise comparative merits of Adam and Eve; Milton''s great epic effects; and "turns of words and thoughts" rare in Milton; double meanings politics did gain; for Milton''s prose works raise every question they England_ Milton makes a formal classification of his prose works written about Adam and Eve, and who therefore feel that Milton''s poem is wanting Milton must also have been drawn to the theme of _Paradise Lost_ by the In _Paradise Lost_ Milton at last delivered himself of the work that had that "John Milton himself is in every line of _Paradise Lost_." The more While Milton was writing _Paradise Lost_ the The close-wrought style of Milton makes the reading of _Paradise Lost_ a by Dryden in the year of Milton''s death, that the _Paradise Lost_ was


id: 6929
title: Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton
author: Milton, John
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  And by true virtue prove thy virtue''s praise a truth. Why stain thy hands with blood of Human kind? The aid denied thee in thy native land. For thee the Aegis of thy God shall hide, Thou linger''st slumb''ring with thy wither''d mate,4 50 Soft whisp''ring airs shall lull thee to repose. What wonder then, thy verses are so sweet, And all the Muse shall rush into thy breast, Thy Muse, vain youth! Thou too, thy antient vegetative pow''r Was Phoebus'' choice; thou hast thy gift, and I These verses also to thy praise the Nine2 Thy praise shall dwell on ev''ry shepherd''s tongue; 40 Shall be thy future home, there dangle Thou Thou change thy Latin for a British song. Thou yet appear''st not in thy place Thy praise in verse to British ears unknown, Love-songs in language that thou little know''st? Who tend the flowers one day shall crown thy race.


id: 6483
author: Masson, David
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  [Footnote: Acts of Scottish General Assembly of 1644; Baillie''s Letters, great question of Church-government, all parties in the Assembly were cooperating harmoniously with each other and with Parliament in other though Milton had been twenty years old at the time of the good Earl''s second edition of Milton''s first Divorce Tract, with this new title: two Houses of Parliament, little wonder that the Independents in the Army sons, his brother Sir Charles Cavendish, General King, Lord Fauconberg, talk with old Mr. Milton about the Bread Street days, how the good man Cromwell to command the horse during so long time as the House shall the King; it was that the Army thought the present the time for HOUSE IN HIGH HOLBORN: MILTON''S SYMPATHIES WITH THE ARMY CHIEFS AND THE HOUSE IN HIGH HOLBORN: MILTON''S SYMPATHIES WITH THE ARMY CHIEFS AND THE January, in the year of our Lord 1646, at the house of Mr. John Milton

title:
  The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time


id: 8770
title: Milton
author: Pattison, Mark
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  My excuse for attempting to write of Milton alter Mr. Masson is that his life is in six volumes octavo, with a total of some years, poetry had assumed a place in Milton''s mind, not merely as a Young Gill, son of the high master, a school-fellow of Milton, went holiday in turning over Latin and Greek authors." Milton read, not as have said, Milton reads books first and nature afterwards, it is not The chief want is books, and of these, for Milton''s style of reading, If Milton had not been the author of _Lycidas_ and _Paradise Lost_, Milton, who lived a very retired life, did not know of these tastes, LATIN SECRETARYSHIP COMES TO AN END--MILTON''S FRIENDS. LATIN SECRETARYSHIP COMES TO AN END--MILTON''S FRIENDS. Milton had four years more of life granted him after this publication. regarded the twenty-five years of Milton''s life between 1641 and the


id: 8509
title: Among My Books. Second Series
author: Lowell, James Russell
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  the great triumvirate of Italian poetry, good sense, and culture called life of Dante, that Alighiero the father was still living when the poet certainly true, that the council and influence of Dante were of great time of Spenser, who, like Milton fifty years later, shows that he had The truth is, that it was only as a poet that Dante was great and Like all great artistic minds, Dante was essentially conservative, and, to Dante at this time,--the plan of the great poem for whose completion Perhaps it seems little to say that Dante was the first great poet who that he calls Dante "the great poet of Itaille," while in the [177] In his own comment Dante says, "I tell whither goes my thought, Wordsworth, like most solitary men of strong minds, was a good critic of Like Dante, Milton was forced to become a party by himself.


id: 33248
author: Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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  the sonnets, in _Paradise Lost_ and in _Samson Agonistes_ where Milton For Milton is the scholar poet. Be that as it may, all Milton''s writings in prose and verse are so Milton liked to be in the minority, to bear up against the pressure of Milton was the poet of English Puritanism, and therefore year of the settlement of New Haven, when Milton went to Italy for mention of Milton, as a controversialist if not as a poet. Milton''s contemporary, Francis Quarles, were much read in New England. nothing to show that _Paradise Lost_ was much read in New England prior poets than Milton if they had read the latter''s works. Was Milton''s Puritanism hurtful to his art? It is curious how Milton''s early poems have changed places in favor Milton''s juvenilia are more read than _Paradise Lost_, and by In _Paradise Lost_ the poet speaks with Herbert, not in the Puritan Milton.

title:
  Milton''s Tercentenary An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton''s Three Hundredth Birthday.


id: 40130
title: A Day with John Milton
author: Byron, May
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  A DAY WITH JOHN MILTON autumnal dew lay wet upon his garden leaves,--John Milton awoke with "Mary will read to me this morning," said Milton, gravely inclining his And this, though Milton had neither the eye nor the ear of a born At seven o''clock the body-servant Greene re-entered, followed by Mrs. Milton, the poet''s third wife, and by Mary Fisher, their maid-servant, "I do always my best, Mr. Milton," replied his wife, "that you shall be "God ha'' mercy, Betty," said Milton, regarding her with an air of kindly poor house these latter days,--time hath failed me for my Having re-entered the house, "We will not read as yet, Tom," Milton said, "And, now, good Tom," quoth Milton to the young man, "let us to work: the Milton''s best time for receiving visitors). Milton assented, "since I am no longer able to study o'' nights, and


id: 34526
title: Milton''s England
author: Mead, Lucia True Ames
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  ancient site of the Knights Templar, whose Temple church, in Milton''s day, The Bread Street of Milton''s day, though swept over by the Great Fire, was Milton saw the most noted house upon the street, known as "Gerrard Hall." Bishop Earle, writing when Milton was twenty years of age, describes St. Paul''s as follows: "It is a heap of stones and men with a vast confusion Court, Milton, now sixteen years old, followed his friend to Cambridge. windows, its splendid organ-screen--old in Milton''s college days--must outside the ancient parish church, that John Milton saw, except the Horton the beautiful old church where the Milton family attended service for five years old when Milton married her, in the church of St. Mary Aldermary, a churches which remain, of those that Milton saw within the city walls. such houses Milton saw at every turn in the beautiful old London that he


id: 62572
title: Milton
author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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  love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in Milton the artificial manner indispensable to such works is admirably general means nothing: but, applied to the writings of Milton, it is passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more In none of the works of Milton is his peculiar manner more happily The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante, as the hieroglyphics great men has in a considerable degree taken its character from their That from which the public character of Milton derives its great and great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.


