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The Life of John Milton - Page 196
by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pages
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The Reports of the American Unitarian ..., Volume 14, Parts 1839-1853

American Unitarian Association - 1839 - 1020 pages
...interest in religion, let us hare profounder thought, prolonged meditation, gazing, a* Milton says, on the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful study. REV. EDMUND B. WILT.SON, of Grafton, in rising to second the resolution, said : — He had been...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Things unattempted yet...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Things unattempted yet...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Tilings unattempted yet...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 7

Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again "behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed...
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Discourses on the Life and Character of John Thornton Kirkland, and of ...

Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in his soul did huddled notions try, And bom a shapeless...false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or to rul to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 18

1849 - 600 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities, sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 1; Volume 36

1844 - 472 pages
...been pem)rmed, the few scholars among the monks hurried back to their folios, " to behold the pleasant countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." We may smile as we remember their childish prejudices, and often unprofitable labors. But they were delving...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." So that of Spenser : " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious...
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