 | Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...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 - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...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 - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...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... 
