 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, 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... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...psalter translation,67 and perhaps that hope translated into his epic-psalter. His early commitment to "celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness" awaited the proper setting; Milton's Book of Praises to creation had to grow out of the... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...Second, bestowal of the poetic gift by God was acknowledged by promise through this immortal literature "to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightinesse, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...great people the seeds of verm, and publick civility, to allay the pertubations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightinesse, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...; and are of power beside the office of a pulpit 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... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...great people the seeds of virtue and public civility,0 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;... | |
 | Heather Dubrow - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 316 pages
...and are of power beside the office of a pulpit, to inbrecd 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... | |
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... are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations... 
