...however, did not feel himself quite so safe as the Rector of Chalf ont thinks. ' On evil days though fallen and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round And solitude.' into existence a considerable number of smaller proprietors.* I shall not attempt here to enter into...

...Milton — with voice unchanged, To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round And solitude — still " gazed on the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,"...

...Milton — with voice unchanged, To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round And solitude — still 'gazed on the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,'...

...strength which it has given to the noblest natures — When fallen on evil days, On evil days when fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round, And solitude. If it has led to Tartuferie, and all the moral degradation of the soul-saving forms of religion, on...

...strength which it has given to the noblest natures — When fallen on evil days, On evil days when fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round, And solitude. If it has led to Tartuferie, and all the moral degradation of the soul-saving forms of religion, on...

...while in peril, by reason of the part that he had taken against the king. But " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round And solitude," he bated no jot of heart or hope. Henceforth he becomes the most heroic and affecting figure in English...

...joy and triumph." He performed that covenant— u " Though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen and evil tongues, In darkness and with dangers compassed round And solitude;" amidst— " The barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers ; " amidst the rage and riot of the...

...praise." One more example of his reference to himself may not be amiss : — " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues ; In darkness and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east. Still govern...

...of this new world of the Restoration, disowning it and disowned by it, the blind Milton lived, — " On evil days now fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude." Such friends as did still come about him were chiefly Nonconformists of the more devout and persecuted...

...near Red Lion Square and then in Jewin Street, neither house having been identified. Here he lived‘ On evil days now fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude.' Here, too, he bent his daughters to his needs. ‘ The eldest, the deformed one, could not write ;...