 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 184 pages
...genius ; but time, the best test, has proved that he did not overestimate his abilities. He says, " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed." Yet so conscious was he of the " gift," that he deems himself prepared for a " work," " not to be raised... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...purify the life of whom He pleases." " Poetical powers are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed ... in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great peop'e the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbation... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...art of composition, may be easily made appear, over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...(though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to inbrced and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...appear, over all the kinds of lyric poesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they bo found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed,...(though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to iabreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...composition, may be easily made to appear, over all the kinds of lyric poetry, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though by most abused) in every nation ; — are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to embrace and cherish... | |
 | John Wilson - 1852 - 336 pages
...gift of Poetry ! " These abilities are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; toallaj the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections to a right tune ; to... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 546 pages
...to the illustration of sacred subjects, whether in the works of imagination, or of pure reasoning. ' These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbred and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 pages
...to the illustration of sacred subjects, whether in the works of imagination, or of pure reasoning. ' These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, beside the offic'« of a pulpit, to inbred an.d cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility,... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...he says — these poetic powers, — ' ' are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, yet to some 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 and public civility; to allay the perturbations... | |
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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 inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
