...right tune; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works and what he suffers to be wrought...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints." Hence it is that his great poem is like a temple, and his majestic lines flow over the soul like an...

...celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what lie works, and what he suffers to be wrought, with high...Church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and Riiiuts, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly, through faith, against...

...riirht tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought...general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime ; in virtue amiable or grave...

...right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought...general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, Whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave...

...right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought...general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship. Lastly, Whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable OP grave...

...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church, to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing...

...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church, to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing...

...a similar ethical function for poetry, but also presents the poet as one who praises God, and sings 'the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ'. Surrounded by the traditional adversaries of the English classic poet - 'libidinous and ignorant poetasters',...

...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...

...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightinesse, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church, to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing...