 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 572 pages
...Eeason of Church Government,' he was preparing for some high work which should be of power ' to iiibreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tune — * * * * a work not to be raised... | |
 | Jane Williams - Authors - 1861 - 580 pages
...his own precepts — John Milton : — " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry - Education - 1861 - 442 pages
...goes on, " wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gifts of God, rarely bestowed, but yet 'to some 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 and public civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | Baptists - 1840 - 708 pages
...waters of faith, and love, and prayer. She realized, with Milton, that " these abilities 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 in right tune ; to celebrate, in glorious and lofty... | |
 | Raymond-Jean Frontain, Jan Wojcik - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1980 - 236 pages
...Milton's leading ideas. Like the Milton of Areopagitica, he seems to have considered that poetry is "of power beside the office of a pulpit to inbreed...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)... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...These abilities [of a poet], wheresoever they be found, are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every Nation:...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... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...nation. 'These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired guift of God, rarely bestow'd, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every Nation:...and are of power 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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every Nation:...inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of verm, and publick civility, to allay the pertubations of the mind, and set the affections in right... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 1064 pages
...the kinds of Lyrick poesy, . . . the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd . . . , [are instituted] in every Nation: and are of power beside the office of a pulpit to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu, and publick civility'.1 Yet in just over... | |
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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 imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
