| 1824 - 828 pages
...dally those who admire the orthodoxy of his PARADISE LOST, would do well to yield due attention. " TRUTH, indeed, came once into the world with her Divine Master, and wag a perfect shape most glorious to look upon ; but when he ascended, and his apottles after him were... | |
| 724 pages
...consideration. " I cannot better close this chapter than by adopting the words of our immortal poet. 'Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her...Master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to look on. But when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then strait arose a wicked race... | |
| John Milton - 1825 - 514 pages
...Qovernment, &c. Prose Works, 1. 01. ' Regenerate in us the lovely shapes of virtues and graces.' Ibiil. 86. ' Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine...master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on." Speech for Liberty of Printing. Ibid. 319. t ' We cannot deny but that besides Origen, several... | |
| 1824 - 408 pages
...The passage we are about to cite is not less remarkable for brilliancy of expression and imagery. " Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine...Master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...to beatific vision, that man, by this very opinion, declares that he is yet far short of the truth. Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine...master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...not, because it is a particular, but leave it to their own conscience, how they will decide it there. Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine...master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...forc'd to favour this deceit, And English goods are smuggled thro' the street. Foole. DCXLVI. Truth came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to Jopk on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid aeleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
| William Leete Stone - 1832 - 602 pages
...laborious, even if it can at all times be discerned. " Truth," to borrow a beautiful simile' from Milton, "came once into the world with her divine "master, and was a perfect shape, most glorious to look on : "but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid "asleep, there straight arose a wicked... | |
| 1836 - 694 pages
...various passages he alludes to her with the same warmth and feeling as if she were a personal friend. " Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine...master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...to beatific vision ; that man by this very opinion declares, that he is yet far short of truth. 61. Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine...master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked... | |
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