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" 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 sevenfold chorus... "
Beacon Lights of History: Great writers - Page 387
by John Lord - 1896
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold of hallelujas and harping symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyse the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime widom of the Areopagilica,...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...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,...symphonies."* We had intended to look more closely at their performances, to analyse the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some length on the sublime...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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,...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' "] Milton's Account of the manner in which the idea of writing some great Religious Poem originated...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric sters of Bengal. But scarcely * Sonnet to Cromwell. t Tk< Reason of Church Government urjea against Prelacy, Book II. We had intended...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...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,...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 'f The following extracts are taken respectively from Milton's work called ' The Reason of Church Government...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1849 - 818 pages
...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,...sevenfold chorus of Hallelujahs and harping symphonies ! " ' But there is another and still deeper reason why we desire to increase the very small number,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...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,...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.' Milton's principal works in prose are the History of England, alreadv alluded to, A Speech for the...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric fore he went to school, and far inferior to a parish-clerk or a printer's devil. * Bonnet to Cromwell. t The KK.IF.OII of Church CoYernmeM urged agalnat Prelacy, Book II. We had intended...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a veut in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies."-)* Sonnet to Cromwell. t The Reaion of Church Government urged again** Prelacy, Book II. We had intended...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...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 sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies."'f* Sonnet to Cromwell. Í The Reason of Church Government urged again ч Prelacy, Book...
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