item: #1 of 15 id: 14380 author: Masson, David 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 date: None words: 285300 flesch: 59 summary: _O^1_, _O^2[t]_, _R_, _L_ _ _R_ added to a name signifies a member of the Barebones Parliament of 1653; _O^1_ keywords: account; advice; affairs; ambassador; answer; anti; april; army; authority; body; book; business; cause; charles; chief; church; city; civil; colonel; committee; commons; commonwealth; constitution; copy; council; country; course; court; cromwell; date; day; days; death; desborough; duke; earl; edition; effect; end; england; english; fact; father; feb; fleetwood; footnote; form; france; french; general; george; god; good; government; great; hand; hath; henry; highness; house; house council; iii; interest; ireland; james; john; john milton; journals; july; june; kind; king; lambert; latin; law; left; letter; liberty; life; like; lockhart; london; lord; lord protector; ludlow; majesty; major; man; march; matter; means; meeting; members; milton; mind; monk; months; morus; new; number; officers; oliver; order; pamphlet; parliament; party; people; person; petition; phillips; place; power; present; protector; protectorate; protestant; public; question; read; rec; religion; republicans; rest; restoration; return; richard; rump; scotland; secluded; second; sept; sir; speech; state; subject; sweden; things; thomas; thought; thurloe; time; title; treaty; vane; wallingford; war; way; westminster; whitehall; whitlocke; william; work; world; years; young; ætat cache: 14380.txt plain text: 14380.txt item: #2 of 15 id: 16757 author: Garnett, Richard title: Life of John Milton date: None words: 70984 flesch: 73 summary: The Poetical Works of John Milton, with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of T. Newton, C. Dunster, and T. Warton; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton. The Poetical Works of John Milton: edited, with introductions, notes, and an essay on Milton's English, by D. Masson. keywords: ---another; ---another edition; ---the; 4to; 8vo; account; age; agonistes; author; books; british; character; charles; christian; church; commonwealth; comus; cromwell; day; death; doctrine; edinburgh; edition; education; england; english; etc; father; fenton; general; god; good; history; house; italian; john milton; johnson; king; latin; letters; life; literature; london; lycidas; magazine; man; mary milton; masson; men; milton; mind; new; newton; notes; paradise; parliament; phillips; place; poems; poetical; poetry; power; professor; prose; public; publication; religion; review; salmasius; samson; second; series; sir; spirit; state; subject; thought; time; treatise; university; verse; vol; vols; way; works; world; writings; years cache: 16757.txt plain text: 16757.txt item: #3 of 15 id: 17548 author: Benson, William title: Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. date: None words: 16486 flesch: 82 summary: with his blank Verse by himself (as indeed he ought to be in many other respects, for he certainly has no Companion) this Dispute about the Excellency of _blank_ Verse, and even the Preference of it to _rhym'd_ To discover which of these two Passages is the most concise, it is not sufficient to shew, that there are two whole _English_ Lines, and but one Line and three Parts of another in the _Latin_. keywords: beginning; ear; english; example; following; foot; homer; kind; language; latin; letter; line; man; manner; milton; monosyllables; passage; pause; pit; poetry; pope; rhyme; second; sir; sound; stile; syllables; thing; translation; verse; versification; virgil; words; æneid cache: 17548.txt plain text: 17548.txt item: #4 of 15 id: 21431 author: Manning, Anne title: Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary date: None words: 57371 flesch: 84 summary: Versing, was about to laye it downe agayn, when _Rose_ came in. Then, returned to the sick Chamber, and found _Rose_ bathing dear _ keywords: agayn; agnew; alle; anie; anne; bed; chamber; child; coming; day; dear; dick; doe; eyes; father; forest; god; goe; good; hand; hath; having; heart; hill; home; house; husband; king; leave; let; life; little; london; look; lord; love; man; mary; milton; mind; moll; morning; mother; ned; night; noe; onlie; owne; robin; rose; sayd; shoulde; soe; tell; things; thought; time; tis; twas; uncle; way; wife; woulde cache: 21431.txt plain text: 21431.txt item: #5 of 15 id: 21677 author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir title: Milton date: None words: 61827 flesch: 63 summary: Lost_ Milton at last delivered himself of the work that had been brooding over him with mighty wings outspread during all the years of his manhood. This is only one of the very numerous places in _Paradise Lost_ where, before he is well aware of it, we catch Milton's sympathies dilating themselves upon the wrong side. keywords: adam; age; air; angels; book; century; character; church; day; death; description; diction; dryden; earth; effect; england; english; epic; eve; fall; figure; god; good; hand; heaven; hell; high; history; human; imagination; john; johnson; kind; king; life; light; line; love; man; men; milton; nature; paradise; passages; place; poem; poet; poetic; poetry; power; prose; samson; satan; sense; shakespeare; state; style; subject; theme; things; thomas; thought; time; use; verse; way; words; work; world; years cache: 21677.txt plain text: 21677.txt item: #6 of 15 id: 22286 author: Bailey, John Cann title: Milton date: None words: 55560 flesch: 66 summary: Paradise Lost_ Milton had cast his eye on to that second chapter in the Christian history of man without which the first is a mere picture of despair. And no one will care to deny that many of the versions of the Psalms have little Milton and less poetry in them. keywords: age; art; book; case; charles; comus; course; day; death; end; england; english; fact; genius; god; greek; heaven; human; life; light; lines; man; men; milton; mind; music; note; paradise; poem; poet; poetry; power; prose; samson; second; sense; shakspeare; story; subject; things; thought; thy; time; truth; verse; way; words; work; world; years cache: 22286.txt plain text: 22286.txt item: #7 of 15 id: 28434 author: Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel title: The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' date: None words: 82681 flesch: 54 summary: He then suddenly changes to the Copernican system, which he lucidly describes in the following lines:-- What if the Sun Be centre to the World, and other stars By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? If the Sun were removed a distance in space equal to that of many of the brightest stars, he would in appearance be reduced to a minute point of light or become altogether invisible; and there are other stars, situated at distances still more remote, of which sufficient is known to justify us in arriving at the conclusion that the Sun must be ranked among the minor orbs of the firmament, and that many of the stars surpass him in brilliancy and magnitude. keywords: appearance; astronomers; astronomy; bodies; brilliancy; centre; comet; day; days; diameter; discovery; distance; earth; eye; form; galileo; heavens; herschel; jupiter; kepler; knowledge; light; magnitude; manner; miles; milton; moon; motion; nature; nebula; new; number; object; observations; orbit; orbs; order; period; planets; point; position; regions; revolution; round; science; space; sphere; stars; sun; suns; surface; system; telescope; theory; time; tycho; universe; venus; way; years cache: 28434.txt plain text: 28434.txt item: #8 of 15 id: 33248 author: Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) title: Milton's Tercentenary An address delivered before the Modern Language Club of Yale University on Milton's Three Hundredth Birthday. date: None words: 5260 flesch: 69 summary: There is nothing more bracing in English poetry than those passages in the sonnets, in _Paradise Lost_ and in _Samson Agonistes_ where Milton speaks of his blindness. Evening Post_ has brought out three or four references to Milton in the _Magnalia_, besides other allusions to him in the publications of the period. keywords: england; english; liberty; man; men; milton; new; paradise; poems; poet; puritan; shakspere; verse cache: 33248.txt plain text: 33248.txt item: #9 of 15 id: 34526 author: Mead, Lucia True Ames title: Milton's England date: None words: 67645 flesch: 71 summary: The steeple of the later church, which rang its bells above the head of little John Milton on Bread Street, close by, was built a hundred and fifty years before his birth; the church was said to have been a rather low, poor building. John Milton was born in London in 1608; and it is chiefly the London of the twenty years that intervened between the Spanish Armada and his birth which we are to consider in this chapter. keywords: abbey; age; body; bread; cambridge; century; chapel; charles; christ; church; churches; city; close; college; court; cromwell; day; days; death; elizabeth; end; england; english; famous; father; feet; fire; good; gothic; gray; great; half; hall; henry; high; history; home; house; james; john; john milton; king; latin; life; little; london; lord; man; mary; men; milton; modern; near; new; north; paul; people; pepys; place; poet; present; queen; saw; school; sir; site; stone; street; temple; time; tower; walls; westminster; wife; windows; work; world; years; young cache: 34526.txt plain text: 34526.txt item: #10 of 15 id: 40130 author: Byron, May title: A Day with John Milton date: None words: 6082 flesch: 71 summary: Mrs. Milton, _née_ Elizabeth Minshull, of Nantwich, was a comely, active, capable woman, of a peaceful and agreeable humour, so far at least as her husband was concerned: for she shared the traditional destiny of a stepmother in not hitting it off with the first wife's daughters. Mrs. Milton, third of that name, as she bustled and busied herself about the study, was by no means a new Eve. keywords: day; elwood; god; illustration; man; mary; men; milton; paradise; plate; time cache: 40130.txt plain text: 40130.txt item: #11 of 15 id: 62572 author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron title: Milton date: None words: 19599 flesch: 67 summary: Between these hostile elements many great men have endeavoured to effect an amalgamation, but never with complete success. Then Somers and Shrewsbury are great men. keywords: book; chapter; character; charles; dante; feelings; freedom; good; king; language; liberty; man; manner; men; milton; mind; nature; paradise; parliament; people; poet; poetry; power; public; revolution; style; time; works; years cache: 62572.txt plain text: 62572.txt item: #12 of 15 id: 6483 author: Masson, David title: The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time date: None words: 289591 flesch: 60 summary: In other words, Baillie is not sure that it is fair to charge Milton's extreme opinion upon Independency as such, inasmuch as it may be the crotchet of a solitary heretic; but he is inclined to think that Milton _is_ an Independent, and he knows at least that Mr. Gorting and other Independents have broached a milder form of the same heresy. Exactly at this time, when the repeated attentions of _New Presbyter_ in England must have been annoying Milton, he had a friendly gleam from the land of the _Old Priest_. keywords: account; answer; april; argyle; army; assembly; aug; author; baillie; barbican; best; body; book; business; case; charles; chief; church; city; civil; colonel; comenius; commissioners; committee; commons; conscience; copy; course; court; covenant; cromwell; date; day; days; death; divines; divorce; doctrine; earl; edition; education; edwards; england; english; fact; fairfax; family; father; footnote; form; friends; general; god; good; government; great; hand; hartlib; having; head; henderson; henry; herbert; high; history; house; iii; independents; interest; john; journals; july; june; kind; king; know; latin; law; left; letter; liberty; life; like; london; lords; majesty; major; man; march; marriage; matter; members; milton; mind; ministers; model; months; montrose; new; newcastle; officers; opinion; order; ordinance; oxford; pamphlets; parliament; parliamentary; particular; people; persons; place; poems; point; powell; power; presbyterian; presbytery; present; principle; propositions; public; question; read; reason; religion; right; robert; round; rushworth; scotland; scots; scottish; second; sectaries; sects; sept; set; sir; state; street; subject; things; thomas; thought; time; title; toleration; tract; treatise; treaty; vol; war; way; westminster; wife; william; work; world; years; young cache: 6483.txt plain text: 6483.txt item: #13 of 15 id: 6929 author: Milton, John title: Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton date: None words: 21300 flesch: 76 summary: Et nec inultus ait temnes mea sacra Britanne, Supplicium spreta relligione dabis. 1Well as the author knows that the following testimonies are not so much about as above him, and that men of great ingenuity, as well as our friends, are apt, through abundant zeal, so to praise us as rather to draw their own likeness than ours, he was yet unwilling that the world should remain always ignorant of compositions that do him so much honour; and especially because he has other friends, who have, with much importunity, solicited their publication. keywords: age; apollo; breast; care; city; damon; day; death; deep; diodati; divine; earth; elegy; ev'ry; eyes; fair; fame; father; friend; god; goddess; golden; heart; heav'n; home; italian; john; jove; kind; king; lambs; love; man; milton; mind; muse; night; nymphs; phoebus; place; poems; pow'rs; praise; rest; rome; sea; shade; shore; song; sound; spring; thee; thine; thou; thoughts; thy; time; truth; vain; verse; voice; world; worth; yield; young; youth cache: 6929.txt plain text: 6929.txt item: #14 of 15 id: 8509 author: Lowell, James Russell title: Among My Books. Second Series date: None words: 109212 flesch: 68 summary: He argues the matter through a dozen pages or more, seeking to prove that Milton _must_ have had some practical experience of military drill. It cannot be too often repeated that Dante's Other World is not in its first conception a place of _departed_ spirits. keywords: beatrice; beauty; book; born; century; character; city; commedia; convito; dante; day; death; delight; divine; doubt; earth; end; england; english; example; eyes; faery; fair; faith; feeling; fine; florence; form; genius; god; good; grace; hand; heart; heaven; help; history; human; ideal; iii; imagination; inferno; italian; judgment; keats; kind; language; let; life; light; like; literature; living; look; lord; love; making; man; masson; master; meaning; men; milton; mind; moral; nature; new; paradiso; parts; passage; people; place; poem; poet; poetry; power; prose; purgatorio; queen; reason; rest; second; self; sense; set; shakespeare; soul; sound; spenser; spirit; study; style; things; think; thought; time; truth; use; verse; virtue; way; wisdom; wordsworth; work; world; years cache: 8509.txt plain text: 8509.txt item: #15 of 15 id: 8770 author: Pattison, Mark title: Milton date: None words: 65201 flesch: 65 summary: But while for the biographer of Milton _Samson Agonistes_ is charged with a pathos, which as the expression of real suffering no fictive tragedy can equal, it must be felt that as a composition the drama is languid, nerveless, occasionally halting, never brilliant. On 8th January, 1650, the Council ordered that Mr. Milton do prepare something in answer to the book of Salmasius. keywords: age; author; books; cause; chapter; character; church; college; country; day; death; education; end; england; english; father; good; government; great; hand; history; home; house; imagination; john milton; knowledge; language; latin; liberty; life; lines; london; man; men; milton; mind; morus; nature; pamphlets; paradise; parliament; party; period; phillips; poem; poet; poetical; poetry; power; public; puritan; reader; reading; real; salmasius; second; set; spirit; state; style; subject; things; thought; time; words; work; world; years; young cache: 8770.txt plain text: 8770.txt