Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language, " a sevenfold chorus... Beacon Lights of History: Great writers - Página 387por John Lord - 1896Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 448 páginas
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'" In 1643 Milton married Mary Powell, but within a month she left him. Her parents were strong Eoyalists... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 páginas
...Macatilay seems to prefer as he writes at the close of his celebrated essay on Milton — " We had intended to dwell at some length on the sublime wisdom of the...Areopagitica and the nervous rhetoric of the Iconoclast; to point out some of those magnificent passages which occur in the Treatise of Reformation and The... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...works in which his feelings, excited by conlict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric apture. d then throws out a little flattery, or lets a man silently flatter himself in his superi eymihonies.'" In spite of this high commendation, Villiam Mlnto, in his "Manual of English Prose Jterature,"... | |
| Robert Gibbs - 1888 - 442 páginas
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture ; it is, to borrow his own majestic language,...seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies.'" In person, Milton was fair, so that he was called at Cambridge " the lady of Christ College ;" his... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 232 páginas
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." We must conclude. And yet we can scarcely tear ourselves away from the subject. The days immediately following... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 104 páginas
...hallelujahs and harping symphonies." {The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelatcy. Book II.) We had intended to look more closely at these performances,...the peculiarities of the diction, to dwell at some 20 length on the sublime wisdom of the Areopagitica, and the nervous rhetoric of the Iconoclast, and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 200 páginas
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." We must conclude. And yet we can scarcely tear ourselves away from the subject. The days immediately following... | |
| Richard Chappell Parsons - 1892 - 310 páginas
...parts of his controversial works, in which his feelings find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies. " His hymn of the " Nativity, " written at the age of twenty-one years, is a marvel of descriptive... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 222 páginas
...to borrow his own majestic language, "a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 10 We had intended to look more closely at these performances,...and to point out some of those magnificent passages 15 which occur in the Treatise of Reformation, and the Animadversions on the Remonstrant. But the length... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 páginas
...controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow his own majestic language,...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." 10 We had intended to look more closely at these performances, to analyze the peculiarities of the... | |
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