 But his Fame is gone out like a Candle in a Snuff, and his Memory will always stink, which might have ever lived in honourable Repute, had not he been a notorious Traytor, and most impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed Martyr, King Charles the...  Notes and Queries - 48 ページ1883全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 ページ
...poems and a tragedy, — viz. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Sampson Angonista; but his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff', and his memory...in honourable repute, had not he been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villainously belied that blessed martyr, King Charles the First!" —... | |
 | 1824 - 378 ページ
...poems and a tragedy, — viz. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Sampson Angonista; but his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...in honourable repute, had not he been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villainously belied that blessed martyr, King Charles the First !"... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 ページ
...might deservedly give him " a place among the principal of " our English poets. — But his " fame is gone out like a candle " in a snuff, and his memory...might " have ever lived in honourable " repute, had he not been a " notorious traytor, &c." Lives of the Poets, p. 1?5. edit. 1687. I mention these descriptions... | |
 | 1824 - 378 ページ
...poems and a tragedy, — viz. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Sampson Angonista; but his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff', and his memory...in honourable repute, had not he been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villainously belied that blessed martyr, King Charles the First !"... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 ページ
...natural parts might deservedly give him a place among the principal of our English poets.—But his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...which might have ever lived in honourable repute, had he not been a notorious tray tor," &c. Lives of the Poets, p. 175. edit. 1687. I mention these descriptions... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 136 ページ
...poems and a tragedy, viz : — Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes ; but his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...which might have ever lived in honourable repute', had he not been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villanously belied that blessed martyr, King... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 128 ページ
...expected to chronicle the stern patriodise Kegatned, and Samson Agonistes ; but his fame is none out candle in a snuff, and his memory will always stink, which might ha lived in honourable repute, had he not been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villanonsly... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1836 - 340 ページ
...heroick poems and a tragedy; namely, Parodies Lost, Paradice Regain d, and Sampson Agonista. But his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed martyr, King Charles the First."—Lives of the Poets, p. 196. (Ed. 1687.) A much greater favourite than Milton... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1839 - 508 ページ
...Regained, and Samson Agonistcs, the biographer adds in language worthy of his sentiments — " But his fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...impiously and villanously bely'd that blessed martyr, King Charles the First." And (strange inconsistency) this writer's motto was " Marmora Mceonii vincunt monumenta... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1846 - 632 ページ
...him as false and unworthy of the least credit. At a time when it was written of Milton : " His fame is gone out like a candle in a snuff, and his memory...will always stink, which might have ever lived in honorable repute, had he not been a notorious traitor, and most impiously and villainously belied that... | |
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