He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted... The Works of Lord Macaulay - Página 53por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul bad left no perceptible trace behind them. People, who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes6* tuous workings of the soul bad left no perceptible trace behind them. People, who saw nothing... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleelwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 páginas
...of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific 15 vision, or wcke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his 20 sw6rd for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left nd perceptible trace behind them.... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetvvood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane,...himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial world; like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But... | |
| J. S. B. Thacher - 1849 - 44 páginas
...lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire, Like Vane,...him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girded on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind... | |
| 1889 - 670 páginas
...thBnM<il11 hi? 638аУ on MiItoD. t°™<Je the end, Macaulay, giving a description of the Puritan, says : " Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him." To what circumstance in Fleetwood's life do these words refer? A. FELS. Hamburg. SEAGRAVE. — Can... | |
| 1850 - 778 páginas
...glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. * * * But when he took his seat in the council, or girt...the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them." These men felt that they were doing a work for other times. It caused them no terror to contemplate... | |
| 1889 - 562 páginas
...— In his essay on Milton, towards the end, Macanlay, giving a description of the Puritan, says : " Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had bid his face from him.'' To what circumstance in Fleetwood's life do these words refer ? A. FELS. Hamburg.... | |
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