 Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes...  The English Journal of Education - Page 3201847Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...own, In fable, hymn, or song, so personating3 Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Kemove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...fable, hymn, or song, so personating8 " Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame ! " Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid " As varnish on a harlot's cheek; the rest, " Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, 345 " Will far be found unworthy to compare " With Sion's songs,3 — to... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...own, In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...sing Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...all poete but Milton , it may be said, aa he himself says of the Athenians,— Remove their «welling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, will he found hare and fruitless; at least, it will seem so, when we compare... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...victors' ear, declare That rather Greece from us these arts derived. The rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to...With Sion's songs, to all true tastes excelling." The father of the English metrical version, was born at Coverdale, in Yorkshire, in 1488, and, like... | |
 | 1856 - 376 pages
...all its intrinsic beauty without any of the tarnish of the vice. True simplicity has none of those " Swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek ; the rest Thin sown with aught of profit or delight." Such is simplicity. Who that considers it will not feel the force of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 pages
...own, In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek; the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...own, In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest, Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far be found unworthy to compare With Sion's songs, to all true tastes... | |
 | W. Trail - Bible - 1863 - 400 pages
...own, In fable, hymn, or song, so personating Their gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. Remove their swelling epithets, thick laid As varnish on a harlot's cheek, the rest Thin sown with aught of profit or delight, Will far bo found unworthy to compare With Zion's songs, to all time tastes... | |
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