 | 1856 - 634 pages
...short, to ' move harmonious numbers.' Thus Milton, concerning the poetic faculties, declares : ' These, wheresoever they be found, ' are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed ; and are of ' power, besides the office of a pulpit, to allay the perturbations ' of mind, and set... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, •wheresoever they be found, are...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all. the kinds of lyric paesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to- be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed-, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation r and are of power, besides the olfice of a pulpit, to iabieed... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside trie office of a pulpit, to inbreed... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, ' beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...of composition, may be easily made to appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God rarely bestowed but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation, and are of power beside the office of a Voi. I—No. X. 60 pulpit,... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...they be found, are the in" spired gift of GOD rarely bestowed, but " yet to some (though most abuse) in every " Nation : and are of power, beside the " office of a Pulpit, to inbreed and cherish ** in a great People the seeds of Virtue, and " public Civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and... | |
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... and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune... 
