The Universal Anthology
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217643221
Paperback|9780217643221
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. EARLIER SONNETS, ETC., OF MILTON. On The Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises (1645). A Book was writ of late called Tetrachordon, And woven close, both matter, form, and style; The subject new: it walked the town awhile, Numbering good intellects; now seldom pored on. Cries the stall reader, Bless us what a word on A title-page is this and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to Mile- End Green. Why, is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheke, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. On The Same. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs; As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs Railed at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which after held the Sun and Moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when Truth would set them free. License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good: But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood. Vol. xiv. ?3 On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament (1647). Because you have thrown off your Prelate Lord, And with stiff vows renounced hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217643221 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217643221 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 372 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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