... to inbreed 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 ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,... The Christian Spectator - Page 5451827Full view - About this book
| 1852 - 672 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works and what He suffers to be wrought...of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship."—Reasons against Prelaty, It was not destined, however, that Milton should then, or for... | |
| John Wilson - 1870 - 722 pages
...tune; to celebrate in glorioub and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's Almightiness, and whal he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his...against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from virtue and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ.' 2 In fact, from the first, at St. Paul's School and at Cambridge, he had written Paraphrases of the... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ.' ' In fact, from the first, at St. Paul's School and at Cambridge, he had written Paraphrases of the... | |
| David Masson - 1871 - 630 pages
...right tune to cele" brate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equi" page of God's Almightiness, and what He works, and " what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His " Church ; to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and " Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations "... | |
| David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...right tune to cele" brate iii glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equi" page of God's Almightiness, and what He works, and " what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His " Church ; to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and " Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations "... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church, to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing... | |
| C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church, to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing... | |
| George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...a similar ethical function for poetry, but also presents the poet as one who praises God, and sings 'the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ'. Surrounded by the traditional adversaries of the English classic poet - 'libidinous and ignorant poetasters',... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...considered himself 'church-outed by the prelates': his own visionary poetry, he hoped, would serve 'to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship'.3 Given that such intimate links existed between poets and the civic and ecclesiastical worlds,... | |
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