Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Página 76por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 128 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Roderick Dew - 1872 - 678 páginas
...all self-abasement, penitenee, gratitude towards God, but, towards man, proud, ealm and inflexible. " He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neek of his king." He prayed with eonvulsions, groans and tears. He heard the lyres of angels or the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 páginas
...rent, that the dead had risen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men,...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 páginas
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men,...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of... | |
| Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 páginas
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God! all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion;...the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement ho prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. Ho was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 264 páginas
...rent, that the . dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men,...gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, saga- ! cious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he stt his foot on the neck... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 páginas
...risen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. MACAULAY. sclf-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm,...his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of... | |
| 1875 - 324 páginas
...rent, that the dead had arisen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated...devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...that the dead had risen, that all nature had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God. Thug the Puritan was made up of two different men, the...passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. Ho prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - 1875 - 96 páginas
...difficult to say which of the various motive principles was uppermost. " The Puritan," says Macaulay, " prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king." I am not accusing such a man of hypocrisy on account of this ; having great wrongs, as he considered,... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1875 - 632 páginas
...difficult to say which of the various motive principios was uppermost " The Puritan," says Maeaulay, "prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker, but he set his foot on the neck of his king." I am not accusing such a man of hypocrisy on account- of this; having great wrongs, as he considered,... | |
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