The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. Ami the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and... The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 70by John Milton - 1847Full view - About this book
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...constitutions, wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation —Or, if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarusand Callimachus are in most things worthy. But those frequent songs throughout the law and... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation — Or, if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarusand Caliimachus are in most things worthy. But those frequent songs throughout the law and... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...intermingling her folemn fcenes and acls with a fevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping fymphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is fufficient to confirm. Orifoccafion fhall lead, to imitate thofe magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...intermingling her folemn fcenes and adts with a fevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping fymphonies : and this- my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is fufficient to confirm. Or if occafion fhall lead, to imitate thofe magnific odes 9ud hymns, wherein... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges; and the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of...those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Calrimachus- are in most things worthy, some others in theii1 frame judicious, in their matter most,... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign, shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation — Or, if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnific...Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy. But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets, beyond all these, not in their divine argument... | |
| Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is tho majestic image of a high and stalely tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn...symphonies ; and this my opinion the grave authority of Parcus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm. Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...Sophocles and Euripides " reign, shall be found more doctrinal and " exemplary to a Nation." — " Or, if occasion " shall lead, to imitate those magnific Odes " and Hymns wherein Pindarus and CaUima" chus are in most things worthy." — " These " abilities (he presently afterward proceeds),... | |
| Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...in somewhat of the same spirit in which it was written. "The Apocalypse of St. John," says Milton, "is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies ; " and though this is being overimaginative, yet Milton is much nearer in spirit to the Divine original than... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...consisting of two persons and a double chorus .•" and he speaks of the Apocalypse of St. John, as " the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of halleluiahs and harping symphonies." Duntier. 171. —while the hand Sung with the coice,] . We have... | |
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