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" ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,... "
The Christian Spectator - Page 545
1827
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The North British Review, Volume 16

1852 - 672 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works and what He suffers to be wrought...of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship."—Reasons against Prelaty, It was not destined, however, that Milton should then, or for...
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The Recreations of Christopher North

John Wilson - 1870 - 722 pages
...tune; to celebrate in glorioub and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's Almightiness, and whal he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his...against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapse of kingdoms and states from virtue and God's true worship. Lastly, whatsoever in religion is...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ.' 2 In fact, from the first, at St. Paul's School and at Cambridge, he had written Paraphrases of the...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ.' ' In fact, from the first, at St. Paul's School and at Cambridge, he had written Paraphrases of the...
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The Life of John Milton, Volume 2

David Masson - 1871 - 630 pages
...right tune to cele" brate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equi" page of God's Almightiness, and what He works, and " what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His " Church ; to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and " Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations "...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ..., Volume 2

David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...right tune to cele" brate iii glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equi" page of God's Almightiness, and what He works, and " what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His " Church ; to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and " Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations "...
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John Milton: Introductions

John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church, to sing the victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing...
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Figures in a Renaissance Context

C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty Hymns the throne and equipage of Gods Almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his Church, to sing the victorious agonies of Martyrs and Saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations doing...
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pages
...a similar ethical function for poetry, but also presents the poet as one who praises God, and sings 'the deeds and triumphs of just and pious Nations...valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ'. Surrounded by the traditional adversaries of the English classic poet - 'libidinous and ignorant poetasters',...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

Thomas N. Corns - 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,...
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