| John Brown - 1866 - 228 pages
...:, BOOK OF REVELATION, DELIVERED IN BUNYAN MEETING, BEDFORD, JOHN BROWN, BA "The Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...shutting up and' intermingling her solemn scenes and act* with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." — MILTON. LONDON : F. PITMAN,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 376 pages
...holy that his song becomes, in his own divine words, " the majestic image of a high and stately drama, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and...sevenfold chorus of- hallelujahs and harping symphonies ! " It would not become us here to speak of Newton, — although, in the exhaustless ereativeness of... | |
| 1867 - 806 pages
...preach the Divine Book, concerning the conclusion of which Milton finally says, " The Apocalypse of St. John is" the majestic image of a high and stately...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." So«;/« in the Might: Words nf Comfort for thr. Sorrowing Cliildrcn of God. London : The Religious... | |
| 1882 - 462 pages
...those for whom it was written. The Apocalypse of St. John, as in the stately metaphor of Milton, is " a high and stately tragedy shutting up and intermingling...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." Whoever interprets it on these lines, as Dr. Farrar has endeavoured to do, may not have given us the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...persons and a double Chanes, as Origen rightly fudges. And the Apocalyps of Saint lohn is the majestick image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and...solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave autority of Pareus commenting that... | |
| John Milton - 1869 - 588 pages
...persons and a double CJiorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalyps of Saint lohn is the maj estick image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and...solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of halleluja's and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave autority of Pareas commenting that... | |
| 1869 - 1208 pages
...Works, ii., 479. t " Paradise Lost," i., 256. t Prose Works, ii., 481. TOL. XT. — i'iriU BKIUM. 3 A and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with...chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies." And as for the lyrical, he declares " those frequent songs throughout the law and the prophets," " in the... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the inajestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and...those magnific odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and o Callimachus are in most things worthy, some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most... | |
| 1852 - 672 pages
...Solomon, consisting of two persons and a chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy,...sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies. . . Or, if occasion shall lead, to imitate those magnificent odes and hymns, wherein Pindarus and Callimachus... | |
| David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...Sophocles and Euripides reign shall be " found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation : the Scrip" ture also affords us a divine Pastoral Drama in the Song...symphonies " (and this my opinion the grave authority of Paneus,1 coin" menting that Book, is sufficient to confirm). Or if occa" sion shall lead to imitate... | |
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