 | 1864 - 646 דפים
...bestowed, 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 purturbations of the mind and to set the affections in a right tune." * True poetry is the work of... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 דפים
...perpetuate the stability of an empire. To use his own words, his poetical writings 'are of power to inbrced and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility.' They will be lost only with onr language: — the tide of his song will cease to uowonl> with that... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1866 - 308 דפים
...though most obscure — in every nation ; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbrecd and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and to sot the affections on a right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage... | |
 | 1866 - 930 דפים
...yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation, and are of powei besides the office of the pulpit to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbatioM of the mind and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 דפים
...— though most abuse [them] — 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 and public civility3 (civilisation] ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1870 - 764 דפים
...bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation; and arc of power, — to imbreed and chcri-h in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right thee ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightincss, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1870 - 722 דפים
...divine gift — the gift of 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 cJ vilify; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affec. lions to a right tune; to celebrate... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 דפים
...and letters, to build up the loftiest love of knowledge and of truth, and, in Milton's fine phrase, " to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility." No nation ever can have too many of such men, provided they arc all of the proper stamp. This nation... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1870 - 334 דפים
...inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed ; 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," and should be used for this noble purpose. The literary man generally, does not even dream that he... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 312 דפים
...some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, beside the oflicc of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tuno ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and... | |
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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, — to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility ; to... 
