| 1835 - 932 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not oven in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which...to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at these performances,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than d hcav'nly choirs the hymenacon sung, What day the...gifts, and, Ü too like In sad event, when to the 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Benson of Church Government... | |
| Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in the bursts of devotional and lyrical rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of thn Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' "] Milton's Account of the manner in which the idea of writing some great Religious Poem originated... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than had never called but one council of war, and that,...never have been, masters of Bengal. But scarcely * Sonnet to Cromwell. t Tk< Reason of Church Government urjea against Prelacy, Book II. We had intended... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lflrt has he ever risen higher than in those part» of hi» ch the 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Reason of Church Government... | |
| 1849 - 818 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the " Paradise Lost" has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works, in which...sevenfold chorus of Hallelujahs and harping symphonies ! " ' But there is another and still deeper reason why we desire to increase the very small number,... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...earlier books of " Paradise Lost " has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his :ontroversial works, in which his feelings, excited by conflict,...of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow bis own majestic language, 'A sevenfold chorus of halleluias and harping symphonies. ' " When about... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 't The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Reason of Church Government... | |
| Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works, in which...to borrow his own majestic language, ' a seven-fold chorua of hallelujahs and harping symphonies/ " Hume, the high-tory and insidious maligner of all religion.... | |
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