 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1839 - 472 pages
...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. PAH. REG. iv. 354. If there be any antidote to that restless... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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...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... | |
 | Beriah Green - 1841 - 428 pages
...to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and bettor teaching The solid rules' of their civil government In their majestic unaffected style...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." On the quotations... | |
 | Beriah Green - 1841 - 460 pages
...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...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." 27 On the quotations... | |
 | Henry Budd - 1841 - 820 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath. ; 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 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... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuri goverement, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, in prime of May ! THOMSON. CANTO I What youthful bride can equal he goverement, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece ond Rome. In them is... | |
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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. 
