The Chronology of Milton's Private StudiesModern Language Association of America, 1921 - 64 páginas |
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added afforded already Amanuensis apparently Areopagitica authors autograph bears belong British Cambridge Camden certainly character Christian Chronicle chronological Church citations cited clearly Common Commonplace Book conclusion considerable contains contemporaneous continued copied course Dante dictated discussion Doctrine document earlier early edition employed English entries Eusebius evidence fact folio follows Girard gives Greek Group hand Holinshed Horton period Horwood idea important indication interest issues Italian Italic Italy Kings Lactantius later letter Library London Machiavelli manuscript materials method MICHIGAN Milton Milton's references fit mind notes observation Paris passage perhaps poems political possible probably prose published quoted reading reason record Reformation regarding relation remaining remarks represented Sarpi scribes Sigonius Sir Thomas Smith Smectymnuus Smith sonnet Sotheby sources Speed statement suggest third thought Thuanus tion tract volume writing written
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Página 310 - Shepherd, I take thy word, And trust thy honest offer'd courtesy, Which oft is sooner found in lowly sheds With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended.
Página 311 - What if with like aversion I reject Riches and realms ! Yet not for that a crown, Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights, 460 To him who wears the regal diadem...
Página 299 - I therefore determined to relinquish the other pursuits in which I was engaged, and to transfer the whole force of my talents and my industry to this one important object.
Página 311 - But to guide Nations in the way of truth By saving Doctrine, and from errour lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet more Kingly...
Página 297 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and...
Página 295 - ... now concurring with the opportunity, acceptable to him, of instructing others in a point of so great concern to the peace and preservation of families, and so likely to prevent temptations as well as mischiefs...
Página 296 - As soon as I was able, I hired a spacious house in the city for myself and my books ; where I again with rapture renewed my literary pursuits, and where I calmly awaited the issue of the contest, which I trusted to the wise conduct of Providence, and to the courage of the people.
Página 296 - The idea and phraseology here are repeated in the preface to Samson Agonistes.159 The entry from Savonarola suggests that Milton had now entered seriously on the study of the era of the Reformation. One of the chief sources of his knowledge was Sleidanus, but before 1644 he had evidently gone carefully through Sarpi, and, of course, had read to some extent the reformers themselves, though, except for Peter Martyr, their names are conspicuously absent from the Commonplace Book.160 The larger occupation...
Página 293 - ... exactness, and, in particular, to set apart from the rest the entire body of materials which belong to the Horton period. This latter group is of the greatest importance as an index to the interests and tendencies which find only scanty echoes in his earlier poetry. A considerable number of the entries reflect the contemporary interest in questions of ecclesiastical custom and in the precedents and authorities regarding them, with a marked predilection for evidence in support of the more liberal...
Página 300 - To him it will be no new thing, though I tell him that if I hunted after praise, by the ostentation of wit and learning, I should not write thus out of mine own season when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies...