| G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 psl.
...LIFE'S but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things God. Life. Nor love thy LIFE, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long or short permit to Heaven. MILTON, Paradise Lost Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " LIFE is but an empty dream ! " For the... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 psl.
...Taught to live The easiest way; nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of life. MILTON. Not love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n. MILTON. His leisure told him that his time was come, And lack of load made his life burdensome.... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 psl.
...nothing of the kind, because moral ideas are really so main a part of human life. The question, hmy to live, is itself a moral idea ; and it is the question...life, nor hate ; but, what thou liv'st, Live well ; now long or short, permit to heaven. In those fine lines, Milton utters, as every one at once perceives,... | |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1879 - 192 psl.
...to read the temper of Milton's sonnet at the age of twenty-three deepened now in his old age. " Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long or short permit to Heaven." The picture of the corrupt civilisation which follows the union of the children of Seth and of Cain... | |
| John Nichol - 1879 - 186 psl.
...respect." supplied. This form of brevity is especially adapted to precepts, as in Paradise Lost: " Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long or short permit to Heaven." And to epitaphs, as this, by Sir H. Wotton : " He first deceased ; she for a little tried To live without... | |
| 1879 - 556 psl.
...is of course to be Riven to the term moral. Whatever bears upon the question, "how to live," romes under it. " Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but, what thou . liv'st, Lm well ; how long or short, permit to heaven." those fine lines, Milton utters, as ry one at once... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1880 - 362 psl.
...nothing of the kind, because moral ideas are really so main a part of human life. The question, how to live, is itself a moral idea; and it is the question...life, nor hate ; but, what thou liv'st. Live well; now long or short, permit to heaven. In those fine lines, Milton utters, as every one at once perceives,... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 590 psl.
...keep till my appointed day Of rendering up, and patiently attend My dissolution." Michael replied: " Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well ; how long or short, permit to Heaven And now prepare thee for another sight." He looked, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of... | |
| John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 psl.
...continued.] So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. Book xi. Line 535. Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. 1 Book xi. Line 553. A bevy of fair women. Bookxi. Line 582. Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd... | |
| John Milton - 1881 - 894 psl.
...keep till my appointed day 550 Of rend'ring up, and patiently attend My dissolution. Michael reply'd. Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n : And now prepare thec for another sight. He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were... | |
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