 These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...  Western Reserve Studies - Page 23de Western Reserve University - 1924Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...some, though most abused, in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in riirht tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 456 pages
...Poetry ! " These abilities are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections to a right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 460 pages
...Poetry ! " These abilities are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections to a right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...service, especially learning and art. He wanted to set up theatres for plays and recitations ' to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune* (Reason of church government). He urged freedom of the press against a ' cloistered virtue... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,... | |
 | Raymond-Jean Frontain, Jan Wojcik - 1980 - 236 pages
...Areopagitica, he seems to have considered that poetry is "of power beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility" (Grundy, p. 214). With regard to the heroic, Drayton contended in England's Heroicall Epittles (1597)... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pages
...beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu and publick civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune.119 Even here, at the centre of Milton's poetics of Reformation, there are traces of what... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu, and pubiick civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness... | |
 | Sarah Grand - 2000 - 606 pages
...purpose, but it is noteworthy that, in so doing, she quotes Milton as assigning to the poet a mission "to allay the perturbations of the mind and set the affections in right order". This is an advance on the position in which a poem or a novel is treated as a means to... | |
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