 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 páginas
...the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places. [From the Defensio Secunda, 1654.] He alone is worthy of the appellation [great] who either... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 páginas
...the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and, in well-ordered flies, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places. [From the Defensio Secunila, 1654.] He alone... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 324 páginas
...substitute for the poetic inspiration. When a man is moved by the ' serious and hearty love of truth, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors,...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.' Milton is speaking of his prose, and, of course, laboured his poetic style most carefully.... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 346 páginas
...the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, (by what I can express,) like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places. To Carlo Dati, Nobleman of Florence. (Familiar Letters, No. X.) When I came upon that passage... | |
 | John Milton, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 páginas
...the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, (by what I can express,) like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places. To Carlo Dati, Nobleman of Florence. (Familiar Letters, No. X.) When I came upon that passage... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1901 - 664 páginas
...substitute for the poetic inspiration. When a man is moved by the ' serious and hearty love of truth, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors,...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.' Milton is speaking of his prose, and, of course, laboured his poetic style most carefully.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1901 - 662 páginas
...substitute for the poetic inspiration. When a man is moved by the ' serious and hearty love of truth, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors,...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.' Milton is speaking of his prose, and, of course, laboured his poetic style most carefully.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 páginas
...infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." — MILTON. ELOQUENCE I DO not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 638 páginas
...infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." But as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 496 páginas
...infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about...well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places." — MILTON. ELOQUENCE I DO not know any kind of history, except the event of a battle,... | |
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... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such... 
