 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 pages
...just views of the superiority and peculiarity of creative mind, so rarely bestowed ; and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, und set the affections in right tune." — MILTON.... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...abilities, (by which the grandest poetry is produced,) wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...for the exercise of those abilities, which, he says, " wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 pages
...a country. " These noble studies," as Milton has said of kindred pursuits, "are of power to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility." They interpret the prophetic voices of the past, and by clothing each familiar spot. each rain, and... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...reference to his poetical powers. ' " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — to in breed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...following reference to his poetical powers. " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation; and are of power, — to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...following reference to his poetical powers. " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation; and are of power,—to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...reference to bis poetical powers. " These abilitiet, wheresoever they be found, arc the inspired gift af God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 444 pages
...these he speaks thus magnificently ; — "These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, in every nation ; and are of power, — to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the... | |
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These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
