 | 1840 - 708 pagina’s
...he works, and what he suffers to be wrought, with high providence, in his church ; and, lastly, that whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue...which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtilties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within, — all these things, with a solid and treatable... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pagina’s
...providence in his church, to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith...against the enemies of Christ, to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship . . . Teaching over the whole book... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pagina’s
...for poetry, but also presents the poet as one who praises God, and sings 'the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ'. Surrounded by the traditional adversaries of the English classic poet - 'libidinous and ignorant poetasters',... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1993 - 372 pagina’s
...course interwoven: "These abilities . . . are of power ... to sing . . . the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing valiantly through faith...Kingdoms and States from justice and God's true worship" (Reason, 39). This great purpose of instruction — for that was the goal of his life in its simplest... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pagina’s
...considered himself 'church-outed by the prelates': his own visionary poetry, he hoped, would serve 'to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship'.3 Given that such intimate links existed between poets and the civic and ecclesiastical worlds,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pagina’s
...providence in his Church, to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing valiantly through faith...general relapses of Kingdoms and States from justice and Gods true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in vertu amiable, or grave,... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - 1999 - 276 pagina’s
...publick civility" and "to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ" (CP 1: 816-17). Poets ought not to isolate themselves, according to Milton, but instead should fulfill,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...providence in his church; to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith...whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable0 or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiranon ' in all the changes of that which is called... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pagina’s
...fulfill the critical aim of the prophetic poet, announced in his Reason of ChurchGovernment (1642). "to deplore the general relapses of Kingdoms and States from justice and Gods true worship" (YP 1:81 7). Moreover, through a series of challenging historical lessons, Adam... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pagina’s
...is worthy to stand before the sanctuary of Truth, and to be the priestess of her oracles. "Whatever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable...without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thought from within:"* whatever is pitiful in the weakness, sublime in the strength, or terrible in... | |
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God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the... 
