 Their orators thou then extoll'st as those The top of eloquence — statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our Prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In...  The Atlantic Monthly - Pàgina 3141894Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 538 pàgines
...their truth and from their appositeness to the present subject, well deserve to be quoted : — " Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. Iu them is plainest taught and easiest learnt "What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." Par. Rey.... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pàgines
...thee, 350 " Unless where moral virtue is expressed " By light of Nature, not in all quite lost. " Their orators thou then extollst, as those " The top of...style, " Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 " In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, " What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so... | |
 | Lord Robert Montagu - 1864 - 490 pàgines
...really only moral evils. Milton thus expresses this truth : he is speaking of the Jewish prophets : — But, herein, to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely...majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece or Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so... | |
 | William Henry LYTTELTON (Hon.) - 1864 - 60 pàgines
...these subjects. Milton, in "Paradise Regained," iv. 357, makes our Lord speak of the Prophets — " As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest-taught, and easiest-learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms,... | |
 | 1904 - 846 pàgines
...the greatest of all text-books on civil government. Its writers are aptly described by Milton, — "As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In thf ir majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rcine. In them is plainest taught... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pàgines
...thee,) 350 Unless where moral virtue is express'd By light of Nature, not in all quite lost. Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence;...indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem; sss But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taugnt, and better teaching The solid rules... | |
 | 1865 - 782 pàgines
...and statesmen of the great states of antiquity. The tempted Jesus to his tempter thus : — " Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence. Statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as mnv seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1865 - 460 pàgines
...them in one of these departments, is true of them and of their fellow teachers, in all the rest. " As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their mujestic, unaffected style, Than ull the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and... | |
 | 1866 - 410 pàgines
...from thee — Unless where moral virtue is express'd By light of nature not in all quite lost. Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence,...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; s» But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pàgines
...rather Greece from us these arts derived." The orators are set to compete with the Hebrew prophets : " Herein to our prophets far beneath As men divinely...better teaching The solid rules of civil government." A competition this, which would probably have caused the greatest astonishment to those to whom the... | |
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