 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 páginas
...purpose, but it is noteworthy that, in so doing, she quotes Milton as assigning to the poet a mission "to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right order". This is an advance on the position in which a poem or a novel is treated as a means to some... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...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,0 to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate... | |
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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... 
