 | John Bell - 1788 - 630 pages
...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 The solid...rules of civil government In their majestic unaffected stile Than all th' oratory of Greece and Rome, 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country as may seem ; Put herein to our Prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...rules of civil government In their majestic unaffected stile Than all th' oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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...learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king. So spake the Son... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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...and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest leamt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat ; These... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; , 55*5 But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the1 oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 65 pages
...occurrences 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...learnt What makes a nation happy and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat. PARADISE REGAINED, iv. 354, If there be any antidote to that... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem; But herein to our prophets fiir beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...unaffected style, Than all the' oratory of Greece and Bome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely tr.ught, hat sad company. • It was a worthy edyfying Uomc. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What ni.-ikt -. a nation happy, and keeps it... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...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...learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king. " So spake the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so ; What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat : These only with our law best form a king." So spake the... | |
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Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king. 
