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. Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 16por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king. In his devotional retirement,...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried, in the bitterness... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 páginas
...In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the scepter of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 páginas
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 páginas
...In his devotional retirement be prayed with convulsions and groans and tears.. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 páginas
...In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Likj Vane, he' thought himself entrusted with the scepter of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...its structure. 82-87. He ... God. Explain the allusions. — Does this passage partake of hyperbole ? king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with...fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or MS woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 páginas
...his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 páginas
...In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting tire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with .the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood,... | |
| Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1881 - 220 páginas
...In his devotional retirement he prayed with convulsions and groans and tears. He was half-maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres...dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself entrusted with the scepter of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness... | |
| 1881 - 578 páginas
...calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot able, and which was then the least understood, Ho heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific... | |
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