Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the Publication of His Lately Discovered Treatise on Christian DoctrineReprinted for Edward Rainford, 1828 - 48 páginas |
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... soul , which have been imparted to few of our race , and conscious of having conse- crated them through life to God and mankind , he rose with- out effort or affectation to the style of an Apostle.— ' JOHN MILTON , TO ALL THE CHURCHES ...
... soul , which have been imparted to few of our race , and conscious of having conse- crated them through life to God and mankind , he rose with- out effort or affectation to the style of an Apostle.— ' JOHN MILTON , TO ALL THE CHURCHES ...
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... soul , as the rudiments of the future plant in the seed . As a necessary result of this constitution , the soul , possessed and moved by these mighty though infant energies , is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible ...
... soul , as the rudiments of the future plant in the seed . As a necessary result of this constitution , the soul , possessed and moved by these mighty though infant energies , is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible ...
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... soul , where poetry is born and nourished , and inhales immor- tal vigour , and wings herself for her heavenward flight . In an intellectual nature , framed for progress and for higher modes of being , there must be creative energies ...
... soul , where poetry is born and nourished , and inhales immor- tal vigour , and wings herself for her heavenward flight . In an intellectual nature , framed for progress and for higher modes of being , there must be creative energies ...
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... soul . It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature , which are full of power , which command awe , and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy . Its great ...
... soul . It indeed portrays with terrible energy the excesses of the passions ; but they are passions which show a mighty nature , which are full of power , which command awe , and excite a deep though shuddering sympathy . Its great ...
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... soul with an almost superhuman energy ; the innocent and irrepressible joy of infancy ; the bloom , and buoyancy , and dazzling hopes of youth ; the throbbings of the heart , when it first wakes to love , and dreams of a happiness too ...
... soul with an almost superhuman energy ; the innocent and irrepressible joy of infancy ; the bloom , and buoyancy , and dazzling hopes of youth ; the throbbings of the heart , when it first wakes to love , and dreams of a happiness too ...
Términos y frases comunes
amidst anti-trinitarian Apostles b. v. lines beauty believe bound breathes Channing CHARACTER AND WRITINGS Character of Napoleon Christ Christian Doctrine Comus consciousness corruption delight despotism divine energy eternity evil exalt faith feeling Fleet Street free agency freedom genius gifted give God's grandeur happiness Harvard College heaven Holy Spirit honour human mind human nature imagination intellectual JOHN MILTON Johnson Judaism language LATELY DISCOVERED TREATISE liberty light lofty Lord's Supper man's matter Milton's character Milton's poetry minister moral noble objects opinions Osiris Paradise Paradise Lost particular church passages passions poet poetical polygamy Price 6d prose writings racter readers RED LION refined religion religious remarks reverence RICHARD TAYLOR sacred Satan Scripture seems soul speak splendour style sublime tenderness Testament things thou thought tion tivate topic total depravity Treatise on Christian true truth Unitarian universal views virtue whole wholly wisdom worship youthful
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Página 22 - 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.
Página 12 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Página 23 - Then, amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high strains in new and lofty measure to sing and celebrate thy divine mercies and marvellous judgments in this land throughout all ages...
Página 9 - ... feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature by vivid delineations of its tenderest and loftiest feelings, spreads our sympathies over all classes of society, knits us by new ties with universal being, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
Página 12 - And in sweet madness robb'd it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Página 20 - For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands; much better would it like him doubtless to be the messenger of gladness and contentment, which is his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness.
Página 14 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 25 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Página 21 - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, — 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...
Página 21 - But now by this little diligence, mark what a privilege I have gained with good men and saints, to claim my right of lamenting the tribulations of the church, if she should suffer, when others that have ventured nothing for her sake, have not the honor to be admitted mourners. But, if she lift up her drooping head and prosper, among those that have something more than wished her welfare, I have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs.