Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volume 2Parker, 1839 - 376 pages |
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... sorrow . At the assembling of the Parliament in November , 1640 , the animosity against the bishops began to assume a more threatening aspect . Milton , willing , as he says , to help the puritans , who were inferior to the prelates in ...
... sorrow . At the assembling of the Parliament in November , 1640 , the animosity against the bishops began to assume a more threatening aspect . Milton , willing , as he says , to help the puritans , who were inferior to the prelates in ...
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... sorrow . From such a mind other arguments were to be expected ; but from his " ab- stracted sublimities , " and the purity of the " divine volume of Plato , " he brought little against his opponents . His weapons were drawn from a ...
... sorrow . From such a mind other arguments were to be expected ; but from his " ab- stracted sublimities , " and the purity of the " divine volume of Plato , " he brought little against his opponents . His weapons were drawn from a ...
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... sorrow , and of the weak ; since I comfort myself with the hope , that these things do , as it were , make me belong still more to the protection and mercy of the Supreme Father . There is , according to the apostle , a way through ...
... sorrow , and of the weak ; since I comfort myself with the hope , that these things do , as it were , make me belong still more to the protection and mercy of the Supreme Father . There is , according to the apostle , a way through ...
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... sorrow , you were induced , as you say , by rumour , to believe that I also was snatched away , it is not surprising ; and if such a rumour prevailed among those of your nation , as it seems to have done , * Paradise Lost , B. v . 755 ...
... sorrow , you were induced , as you say , by rumour , to believe that I also was snatched away , it is not surprising ; and if such a rumour prevailed among those of your nation , as it seems to have done , * Paradise Lost , B. v . 755 ...
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... sorrow and heaviness “ kneeled down and prayed , ” might have corrected his opinion . He reiterates what he had before expressed in the Iconoclastes , that God is not to be " moved with a prayer elaborately penned , " and that the ...
... sorrow and heaviness “ kneeled down and prayed , ” might have corrected his opinion . He reiterates what he had before expressed in the Iconoclastes , that God is not to be " moved with a prayer elaborately penned , " and that the ...
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