 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
 | Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1924 - 366 pages
...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...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is praised aright and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies and His saints (Such are from God inspired, not... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...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...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is praised aright, and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies, and His Saints (Such are from God inspired,... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...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...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is praised aright, and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies, and His Saints (Such are from God inspired,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...their swelling epithetes, 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...songs, to all true tastes excelling, Where God is praised aright and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies and his Saints (Such are from God inspired, not... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...Remove their swelling Epithetes thick laid As varnish on a Harlots 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 tasts excelling, Where God is prais'd aright, and Godlike men, The Holiest of Holies, and his Saints;... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...of this aside remains mysterious. rests on the surface. It is all show and no substance: Remove thir 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. . . . (4.343-47)... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 926 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 taste... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 422 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 - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...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 excelling,721 Where God is praised aright and godlike men, The Holiest of Holies and his Saints (Such... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1997 - 344 pages
...cited, from Paradise Lost, but, more inventively, from Paradise Regained, Book 4, 11.343-46: 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. (p. syi)29 But what, then, was the real purpose... | |
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