 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...matter most an end faulty. But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. l The... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 608 pages
...amplitude of those ' frequent ' songs throughout the law and prophets,' which he held ' incompa' rable,' not in ' their divine argument alone, but in the very critical ' art of composition, over all the kinds of lyric poetry.' * Dorrington's (Rev. Theo.) Discourse on Singing... | |
 | C. S. Lewis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 356 pages
...Milton says in The Reason of Church Government1 that the Psalms are better than Pindar and Callimachus 'not in their divine argument alone but in the very critical art of composition', critical art must surely, by this idiom, mean the art that critics expound; those who... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...throughout the law and prophets beyond all these [ie the odes and hymns of Pindar and Callimachus], not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable.' Thus... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...Heavenly Harpings and Song between." Milton revered the dramatic along with the lyric works of the Bible "not in their divine argument alone but in the very critical art of composition" (RCG 3 : 238). The Savior in PR clearly reflects this particular opinion. Milton's attitudes... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...matter most an end faulty: But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable. (CP,... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 926 pages
...worthy," he says, " But those frequent songs throughout the law and the prophets, beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made to appear, over all the kinds of lyric poetry, to be incomparable."... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Callimachus, he adds that 'those frequent songs throughout the Law and the Prophets' are superior 'not only in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition'. 722 (p. 466) rubric (literally, 'painted in red') a heading or set of instructions. In... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...matter most an end faulty: But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable. These... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...matter most an end faulty; but those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable' (238).... | |
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But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. 
