... 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... The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 479by John Milton - 1848Full view - About this book
| Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson - 1914 - 228 pages
...religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration, ... all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe." 1 Such confidence in the Christian religion to supply heroic themes for the modern poet had been previously... | |
| Asia - 1920 - 960 pages
...visits of ceremony carrying his own cards." It is the shining tableland of immemorial etiquette, secure "in all the changes of that which is called fortune...without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thought from within." Even the eighteenth century fails us; even Lady Mary, sitting in an arbor on... | |
| Electronic journals - 1919 - 410 pages
...faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable and grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune... | |
| Electronic journals - 1919 - 398 pages
...faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable and grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 264 pages
...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...and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe. . . . Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet... | |
| Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 766 pages
...nothing." 2 And the purpose of Milton's epic was: "Whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in vertu amiable, or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is call'd fortune from without, or the wily suttleties and refluxes of mans thoughts from within, all... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...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...called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and reflexes of man's thoughts from within; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint... | |
| Ida Langdon - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 362 pages
...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...which is called fortune from without, or the wily sublteties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within, all these things with a solid and treatable... | |
| John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...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 and grave, whatsoever hath Passion or Admiration in all the changes of that which is called Fortune... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of English - English literature - 1925 - 252 pages
...faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable and grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune... | |
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