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" Arcadia, and imputing it to the king ; whom he charges, in his Iconoclastes, with the use of this prayer, as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ... - Page 524
by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812
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The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ...

Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...venerable or great: " Who would have imagined so little fear im him of the true all-seeing Deity—as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands...of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relic of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen woman praying...
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose pfB.ce is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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The Milton Anthology: Selected from the Prose Writings

John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...unchristened the very duty of prayer itself, by borrowing to a Christian use prayers offered to a heathen god. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 4

David Masson - 1877 - 664 pages
...pur- stuff of thia sort to any extent. pose was peculiar, and his words are offered to a Heathen God. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 4

David Masson - 1877 - 668 pages
...pur- stuff of this sort to any extent, pose was peculiar, and his words are offered to a Heathen God. Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great : " Who would have imagined so little fear in...saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from 30 the mouth of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god ! " The papers which the King gave to Dr....
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great : " Who would have imagined so little fear in...pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended 20 him, as a special relique of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth...
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