 ... teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed; that...  The Christian Observer - Page 2541815Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gentry, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...as look upon Truth herfelf, unit-Is they fee her elegantly droit ; that whereas the paths of bonefty and good life appear now rugged and difficult, though they be indeed eafy and plcafant, they will then appear to all men both eafy and pleafant, though they were rugged... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. " The thing which 1 had to say, and those intentions, which have lived within me eve? since I could... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...those, especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon Truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they .see her elegantly drest; that whereas the pathes of honesty and good life appear now rugged and difficult,...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.'* He then proceeds to say, that this thing can only be done ' by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit,... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 514 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed, that whereas the paths...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.'* To these quotations another of a different kind may be not improperly added, as well on account of... | |
 | John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself unless they see her elegantly dressed, that whereas the paths...and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.'8 To these quotations another of a different kind may be not improperly added, as well on account... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...those, especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed ; that whereas the...difficult, though they be indeed easy and pleasant, they would then appear to all men both easy and pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed, that whereas the paths...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed. And what a benefit this would be to our youth and gently, may be soon guessed by what we know of the... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Reason of Church- Government, &c. B. ii. "Those who will not so much as look upon Truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed , that whereas the...pleasant, though they were rugged and difficult indeed." Compare also Comus, ver. 476, et seq. TODD. Ver. 480. tunable as sylvan pipe or song ;] So, in Par.... | |
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