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 387by John Lord - 1896Full view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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