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Adam anges appelle avant besoin caractère cause chants choses Christ chute ci-dessus ciel complète conception considère corps création créé Cromwell d'abord d'autres désir destinée devant Dieu dire divine divorce doctrine dogme doit domination donne écrit esprit essentiellement façon femme Fils fond force forme général good haut have hommes humaine idées important justice l'âme l'amour l'Église l'esprit l'homme l'intelligence laisser liberté libre livre lui-même lutte mariage Masson matière Milton monde montre mort nation nature nécessaire œuvre orgueil pamphlets Paradis perdu parle particulier passage passer passion péché pensée Père peuple peut-être philosophie place pleine poème poète pouvoir premier profondément propre pure puritain qu'un question raison religieuse religion reste rien s'est s'il saint Satan second semble sens sentiments sera seulement sorte souvent suivant sujet surtout terre their them they things thou Traité triomphe trouve vérité volonté vrai
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Page 84 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 28 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Page 85 - Lords and commons of England! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 84 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man ' lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 196 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 22 - Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste...
Page 155 - Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created), we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars. Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring ; nor restrain'd conveyance need, As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
Page 86 - Now once again by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as they daily and solemnly express their thoughts, God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in his church, even to the reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen...
Page 39 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 40 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | La pensée de Milton Bibliothèque de philologie et de littérature modernes |
| Auteur | Denis Saurat |
| Éditeur | Universite de Paris., 1920 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 2 sept. 2005 |
| Longueur | 363 pages |
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