| 1858 - 866 pages
...reason why the sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person of Guión, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. THE POOR WASHERWOMAN. " T DECLARE, I have half a mind to put this _L bed-quilt into the wash to-day.... | |
| Edward Miall - 1861 - 296 pages
...poet Spenser (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas), describing due temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in...earthly bliss, that he might see, and know, and yet abstain.'"—British Churches, 8vo, pp. 26—31. unfaithfulness to their appointed mission cannot be... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness;* which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. WE CANNOT EXCLUDE TEMPTATION FROM THE WORLD. If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners,... | |
| American Unitarian Association - Unitarian churches - 1862 - 584 pages
...divinity. Dr. Channing says this of Milton ; and Milton, before him, said the same of Spenser, — " our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be...to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." But not only poets, the better class of theologians are also continually coming nearer to this view... | |
| 696 pages
...That which puriSes us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary, which was the reason why our sage, serious poet, Spenser (whom I dare be known to think...Aquinas), describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him with his palmer through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss, that he might... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...— describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon and the Bower of earthly Bliss, that... | |
| John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pages
...That which purifies is trial, and trial is by what is contrary ; which was the reason why our sage, serious poet Spenser — whom I dare be known to think...— describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him, with his palmer, through the Cave of Mammon and the Bower of Bliss, that he might... | |
| William Ingraham Kip - Lent - 1867 - 246 pages
...trial, and trial is by what is contrary. Which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer, describing true Temperance under the person of Guion,...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain." Yet it is evident, on the other hand, that a temporary retirement from the bustle and tumult of this... | |
| James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...it, is but a blank virtue. — Miltcni. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spenser, describing true temperance under the person of Guion,...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. — Anon. The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason, in... | |
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