 | John Foster - 1806 - 300 pàgines
...of his departure predicted his. coming again ; might have shamed to silence the muses of paganism1, or softened the pains of a Christian martyr. Part...of Young, those of Cowper, Watts, and a few others, havfi animated a very great number of minds with sentiments which they did not feel it necessary to... | |
 | John Foster - 1813 - 502 pàgines
...applying the censure to the poets, it is very gratifying to meet with so much to applaud in the greatest of all their tribe. Milton's genius might harmoniously...complacency to the language of Christ and his apostles. But aa to the great majority of the poets, it would be most curious to try what kind of religious system,... | |
 | Timothy East - 1817 - 246 pàgines
...Milton's genius might harmoniously have mingled with the Angels that announced the Messiah to be come ; might have shamed to silence the muses of paganism, or softened the pain* of a Christian Martyr."* B«t Cowper, for correctness of evangelical sentiment, for delicacy... | |
 | 1827 - 684 pàgines
...harmoniously have mingled with the angels who announced the Savior to be come, or who on the spot or at the moment of his departure predicted his coming...Paganism, or softened the pains of a Christian Martyr." We would not, however, speak ve*y decisively at this time of his character, so far as experimental... | |
 | John Foster - 1838 - 400 pàgines
...it is gratifying to meet an exception in the most elevated of all their tribe. Milton's consecrated genius might harmoniously have mingled with the angels...martyr. Part of the poetical works of Young, those of Watts, and of Cowper, have placed them among the permanent benefactors of mankind ; as owing to them... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1845 - 484 pàgines
...mingled with that of the angels who proclaimed the coming of Christ upon the plain of Bethlehem ; to have shamed to silence the muses of Paganism, or softened the pains of a Christian martyr." True, they were not professed theologians, and did not protrude the peculiarities of the Gospel into... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pàgines
...Messiah to be come, or that, on the spot and at the moment of his departure, predicted his coming again j might have shamed to silence the muses of paganism...martyr. Part of the poetical works of Young, those of Watts, and of Cowper, have placed them among the permanent benefactors of mankind ; as owing to them... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1846 - 508 pàgines
...mingled with that of the angels who proclaimed the coming of Christ upon the plain of Bethlehem ; to have shamed to silence the muses of Paganism, or softened the pains of a Christian martyr." True, they were not professed theologians, and did not protrude the peculiarities of the Gospel into... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pàgines
...Foster said of it, " It might harmoniously have mingled with the angels that announced the Messiah ; it might have shamed to silence the muses of paganism, or softened the pains of a Christian martyr." It may be said of his great work, that it was " allied to heavenly harmony." His most sinful and inferior... | |
 | John Foster - 1848 - 364 pàgines
...spot and at the moment of his departure, predicted his coming again; might have shamed to silence tne muses of paganism ; or softened the pains of a christian...martyr. Part of the poetical works of Young, those of Watts, and of Cowper, have placed them among the permanent benefactors of mankind ; as owing to them... | |
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Milton's consecrated genius might harmoniously have mingled with the angels that announced the Messiah to be come, or that, on the spot and at the moment of his departure, predicted his coming again ; might have shamed to silence the muses of paganism... 
