a heavy crime, in the indecent language 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 him of the true all-seeing deity, as, immediately before his... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 68by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
| James Anson Farrer - 1907 - 320 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...Deity ... as immediately before his death to pop into that grave bishop who attended him for a special relique of his saintly exercises a prayer stolen word... | |
| Jean Jules Jusserand - 1908 - 454 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,... | |
| Percy Addleshaw - 1909 - 434 pages
...worded. Milton, who made the devil a saint, anticipating Goethe and Sir Herbert Tree, wrote in horror: "Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, whose office it is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
| Sten Bodvar Liljegren - 1918 - 220 pages
...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...the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relique of his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth of a heathen... | |
| John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...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...imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity—as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave Bishop that attended him,... | |
| John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...[Richard] a deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but of religion. * [The Wrong Use of a Good Book.] Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true allseeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, Whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
| John Milton - 1928 - 408 pages
...[Richard] a deep dissembler, not of his affections only, but of religion. l [The Wrong Use of a Good Book.] Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true allseeing Deity, so little reverence of the Holy Ghost, Whose office is to dictate and present our Christian prayers,... | |
| 1906 - 884 pages
...prosperity had emboldened tb« advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great: "^>° would have imagined so little fear in him of the true...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... | |
| Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 pages
...imputing it to the King; whom he charges, in his Eikonoklastes, with the use of this prayer as with a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which...imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing Deity—as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him,... | |
| Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 pages
...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...rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great" (1:110-11). Instead of asserting Milton's guilt here, as some have maintained, it is important to note... | |
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