 ... tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of...  Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison - Page 76by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 211 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Baptists - 1825 - 582 pages
...year. Like Fleetwood, ho cried, in the bitterness of his soul, that God bad hidden his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt...for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had Ictt no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages,... | |
 | Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
...year. ' Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt...visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and thenwhining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, 70 or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings...heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might laugh at them. But those had 75 little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness of his soul, that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt...perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the Puritans but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their hymns, might... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...millennial year. Like Fleetwood,f he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempcstous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...millennial year. Like Fleelwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt...workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind him. People, who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt...sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul bad left no perceptible trace behind them. People, who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes6* tuous workings of the soul bad left no perceptible trace behind them. People, who saw nothing... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1842 - 478 pages
...millennial year; like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt...visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and whining hymns, might laugh at them; but those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the... | |
 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...language, — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth...laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate, or the field of battle The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other.... | |
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