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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 196
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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The Southern Review, Volume 5

1830 - 548 pages
...consisting of two persons and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John, is the majestic image of a high and stately...book is sufficient to confirm. Or if occasion shall serve, to imitate those magnific odes and hymns, where in Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things...
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Southern Review, Volume 5

1830 - 550 pages
...consisting of two persons and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John, is the majestic image of a high and stately...scenes and acts with a seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs arid harping symphonies ; and this my opinion, the grave authority of Parcus commenting that book is...
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Lives of the Twelve Apostles: To which is Prefixed a Life of John the Baptist

Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1835 - 272 pages
...who thus speaks in his Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty. " And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm." But whatever difference there may be concerning the intention of this book, there can be none with...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. hat might restrain by force and punishment what was...self-defence and preservation being originally and naturally commenting1 that book, is sufficient to confirm. Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnifie...
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Poetical Works: Paradise lost

John Milton - 1835 - 364 pages
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...constitutions wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation ; or if occasion shall lead to imitate those magnific...Pindarus and Callimachus are in most things worthy. But those frequent songs throughout the Law and Prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origeu rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...seven-fold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies."* Milton certainly appears to have considered the Book of Job as an epic, but he could not have been...
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Paradise Lost: With Variorum Notes ... and a Memoir of the Life of Milton ...

John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the ' Apocalypse ' of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...symphonies ; and this my opinion, the grave authority of Paraeus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm ; or if occasion shall lead to imitate those...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges ; and the Apocalypse of St Deserves no less than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made I'areus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm. Or if occasion shall lead, to imitate those...
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The Living Age, Volume 107

1870 - 846 pages
...to grapple with the impossible ; for the imagery of what Milton described, in his majestic prose, as a " high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies" — that imagery is unpaintable. Barely can words, which are a far vaguer vehicle than drawing, convey...
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