...have given additional strength and fresh force to our sage poet's eulogy on the Jewish Prophets ; — As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat. PAH. REG. iv. 354. If there be any antidote to that restless craving for the wonders of the day, which...

...character of the Jewish people during the whole period of their existence as an independent state. As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...learnt What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." Par. Reg. B. iv. With this exception, however, the scheme of the Hebrew polity may be profitably used...

...character of the Jewish people during the whole period of their existence as an independent state. As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...learnt What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." Par. Reg. B. iv. With this exception, however, the scheme of the Hebrew polity maybe profitably used...

...eloquence, statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; 355 But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What...

...to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and bettor teaching The solid rules' of their civil government In their majestic unaffected style...flat ; These only with our law best form a king." On the quotations I have made from Paradise Regained, permit me to suggest a hint or two. 1. These...

...Satan, by one And lovers of their country, as may scorn ; Rut herein to our prophets far beneath, AJ men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...rules of civil government In their majestic unaffected stile, Than all tb' oratory of Greece and Rome." Book ir. 1. 353. word, and all his rebellious host,...

...eloquence ; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets st monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's n goverement. In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is...

...of eloquence, statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of their civil government In their majestic unaffected style Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome....

...eloquence ; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...flat ; These only with our law best form a king." So spake the Son of God ; but Satan, now Quite at a loss (for all his darts were spent), Thus to our...

...epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of his muse: " In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions; and sometimes the...