Author: John A. HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Life of John Milton
Author: John A. HamiltonJohn Milton, Englishman (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Holly HanfordPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259444275
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Excerpt from John Milton, Englishman Actually, Milton's fame, which is said always to have been more or less a matter of politics, is as much so today as It ever was. If seventeenth century Puritanism and the English civil war seem more remote to us than they did to Johnson or Macaulay, it is only that the debate has been transferred to a larger and more philosophic stage. There are three reasons for Milton's remaining a controversial figure: He gave such eloquent answers to questions that still divide mankind. He made his own charac ter an issue in the public causes for which he fought. And as a poet he did not detach himself from his imaginative creation. The present writer is less interested in evaluating Milton as an artist, a thinker, or a man than he is in explaining the processes of a creative personality, but he does not expect or particularly wish to escape what others have failed to escape: the betrayal of an attitude. As an American, familiar with England and English tradi tion chiefly through books, he sees Milton with a difference. As an ob server of the current world of revolution and reaction, peace and war, he interprets the great protagonist of the struggles of another age in the light of behavior he has observed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Life of John Milton, Englishman, Partly in His Own Words
Author: John Arthur HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780841448742
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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English Prose Writings of John Milton (Classic Reprint)
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780656062560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Excerpt from English Prose Writings of John Milton There are omitted from this volume all the writings in which Milton replied to the Opponents of his views. The controversies of 250 years ago travelled by many paths in which we care no longer to assert a right of way. At all times, the Reformer who is answering opponents has his course of argument determined by the reason or the unreason Of other men. Forms of reply dependent upon accidents Of the attack are only to be read with measured judgment by those who have read the attack also and Often when we have read both, we have heard a sound of battle in the air that has appealed to our imaginations and disturbed our judgment. The battle Of Opinion rolls forward to new ground from century to century. The great truths are immutable, the applications Of them vary with the change of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Prose Works of John Milton, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. A. JohnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331855286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Excerpt from Prose Works of John Milton, Vol. 2 Soon after the march of Fairfax and Cromwell, with the whole army, through the city, in April, 1647, to suppress the insurrection of Brown and Massey, Milton removed to Holborn, where he continued until after the King's death; when, the form of the government being changed to a republic, and the Presbyterians, then out of power, declaring their abhorrence of the Stuart's execution, Milton undertook, in the following treatise, to maintain the right of nations to put a tyrant to death. Wood rightly supposes it was written before the execution of Charles I., though it now contains many passages afterwards inserted; but Milton himself assures us it was not published until the transaction had taken place; and even then more with a design to compose the public mind, and reconcile to the existing government such as were disaffected, than to determine anything respecting the late king. From a MS. note found in a printed copy in his possession, Dr. Birch discovered that the work was published in the month of February, 1648-49. It should be remembered that even in his "Defence of the People of England," when there existed no reasons for suppressing or disguising his sentiments, Milton never exhibited any hatred of just and lawful princes; and here, in advocating tyrannicide, takes the greatest care to distinguish between the king and the tyrant. His opinions, in fact, were those of Buchanan, ("De Jure Regni apud Scotos,") from whom Dryden absurdly accuses him of stealing the whole "Defence of the People of England;" and upon the Revolution of 1688, Locke maintained, with the approbation of King William III., precisely the same proposition. This the reader should constantly bear in mind, as well as that he wrote in a Commonwealth, at a time when the opinions of most learned men were unfavourable to monarchy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Works Of John Milton, in Verse And Prose, Vol. 7
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666111494
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 478
Book Description
Excerpt from The Works Of John Milton, in Verse And Prose, Vol. 7: Printed From The Original Editions With a Life Of The Author Aum Logica: Plenior Infiitutio, ad Petri Rami Methodum con cinnata. Adjo&a efi Praxis Analytic: et Petri Rumi Vita. Libris duobns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
John Milton, Vol. 20 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Daniel WisePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267242917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Excerpt from John Milton, Vol. 20 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good: myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things. Milton's scholastic education began early under his father's direction and care, who also provided him private teachers at home until he was in his twelfth year. He then sent him to St. Paul's Grammar School. These helps, seconded by his own really excessive but loving diligence in study, pre pared him for admission to Christ's College, Cambridge University, Feb. 12, 1624, when he was sixteen years and two months Old. Here his devotion to study was unabated. It was his habit to sit up till midnight at his book, which Was the first thing that brought his eyes into the danger ofblindness. For some reason, not fully explained, he had some disagreements with Chappell, his first tutor, and with Bainbridge, master of the college, which made him for a time unpopular with the college authorities. Out of these facts arose the legend, Sanctioned by Johnson, that Milton was whipped at college. But, after carefully sifting the evidence by which this scandal was supported, Masson, the poet's most exhaustive biographer, pronounces it unworthy Of credit. That he was rusticated for a short time while an undergraduate is tolerably certain. Yet not for any moral misconduct, but probably because his self-assertion and mental independenceb crave offense to his Official superiors, some of whom he despised as being his infe1i01s, if not -ih attainments yet in intellectual breadth and quality Of mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Prose Works of John Milton, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484890427
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Excerpt from The Prose Works of John Milton, Vol. 4 Books of the Council of State. Which continue in succession till the 2d of September 1658, the day death of Cromwell) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Works Of John Milton, in Verse And Prose, Vol. 6
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332712208
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : la
Pages : 498
Book Description
Excerpt from The Works Of John Milton, in Verse And Prose, Vol. 6: Printed From The Original Editions With a Life Of The Author Accedence Comenc't Grammar, Supply'd with fuficient Rules For the ufe of fuch as, Younger or Elder, are defirous, with out more trouble then needs, to attain the Latin Tongue; the elder fort efpecially, with little teaching, and thir own in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Milton (Classic Reprint)
Author: Mark PattisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332747559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Excerpt from Milton If Milton's genius did not announce itself in his para phrases of Psalms, it did in his impetuosity in learning, which I seized with such eagerness that from the twelfth year of my age, I scarce ever went to bed before midnight. Such is his own account. And it is worth notice that we have here an incidental test of the trust worthiness of Aubrey's reminiscences. Aubrey's words are, When he was very young he studied very hard, and sate up very late, commonly till twelve or one O'clock at night; and his father ordered the maid to sit up for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.