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... highest order of intel- lect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fastidiousness , which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted ...
... highest order of intel- lect . Though accustomed almost from infancy to drink at the fountains of classical literature , he had nothing of the pedantry and fastidiousness , which disdain all other draughts . His healthy mind delighted ...
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... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True , poetry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
... highest efforts , it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity ; that is , to spiritualize our nature . True , poetry has been made the instrument of vice , the pander of bad passions ; but when genius thus stoops , it dims its ...
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... highest triumph , in imparting a char- acter of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so re- mote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
... highest triumph , in imparting a char- acter of reality and truth to its most daring creations . That world of horrors , though material , is yet so re- mote from our ordinary nature , that a spiritual being , exiled from heaven , finds ...
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... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
... highest heaven of invention . ' Milton was cast on times too solemn and eventful , was called to take part in transactions too perilous , and had too perpetual need of the presence of high thoughts and motives , to indulge himself in ...
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... highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold , and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these ...
... highest merit . A great mind cannot , without injurious constraint , shrink itself to the grasp of common passive readers . Its natural movement is free , bold , and majestic , and it ought not to be required to part with these ...
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Page 239 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory ; whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 26 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;...
Page 50 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 401 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 27 - ... faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Page 13 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled...
Page 27 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren 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 31 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 391 - The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Page 26 - Thou hadst the diligence, the parts, the language of a man, if a vain subject were to be adorned or beautified; but when the cause of God and his Church was to be pleaded, for which purpose that tongue was given thee which thou hast, God listened if he could hear thy voice among his zealous servants, but thou wert dumb as a beast; from henceforward be that which thine own brutish silence hath made thee.