 Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a seven-fold...  My Miscellanies - Page 411by Wilkie Collins - 1875 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...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 bursts...to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at these performances,... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...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 bursts...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' " We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher th/in in those parts of his controversial works, in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts...seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' * We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the diction,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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 bursts...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
...Paradise Lost has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his e had taken the advice of that council, the British...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
...Paradise Lflrt has he ever risen higher than in those part» of hi» controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Reason of Church Government... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...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 bursts...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
...Paradise Lost " has he ever risen higher than in those parts of his :ontroversial works, in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts...of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow bis own majestic language, 'A sevenfold chorus of halleluias and harping symphonies. ' " When about... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...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 bursts...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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