 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...visited " nightly" by the "heavenly Muse," or "when morn purpled the east," and was thus emboldened " to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness" (to use his own words,) " and what He works and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind,...agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs ofjust and pious nations, doing valiantly, through faith, against the enemies of Christ; to deplore... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pages
...beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people, the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections u right tune; to celebrate ia glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's MIn entCnnS... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...to • imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility [civilization]; to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the...martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and piou? nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general... | |
 | 1855 - 892 pages
...found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime,... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, tho throne and equipage of God's almightiness ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints. Lastly,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...seeds of virtue and public civility [civilization]; to allay the perturbations of the mind and sct the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiucss, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought with high Providence in his Church... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, Ac. to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what ho works, Ac. to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints," Ac. — TODD. i (Such are from God... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune j to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, tho throne and equipage of God's almightiness; to sing... | |
 | Edward Thomson - Education - 1856 - 426 pages
...— to use his own language — " to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind and...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints." Hence it is that his great poem is like a temple, and his majestic lines flow over the soul like an... | |
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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 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
