... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The Emerald - Page 2351806Full view - About this book
 | 1776 - 476 pages
...thou liv'rt. ' Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n: And now prepare thee for another sight. He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing; o'hers, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...what thouliv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight. He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 608 pages
...liv'st Live well ; how long or short permit to Heav'n. And now prepare thee for another sight,. 555 He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue : by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime Was heard, of... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...thou liv\t, Live well; how long or short permit to IIeav'n; And now prepare thee for another sight. He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various huei hy some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 394 pages
...liv'st Live well, how long or short permit to Heaven . And now prepare thee for another sight. 555 HE look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herds Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime 'Was heard, of... | |
 | 1807 - 458 pages
...stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." — Tractate tf Education, Prose Workif Amst. Edit. Vol. it. p. 849. Surely this sentence abounds as... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...well, how long or short pcrn;it to Heav'n: And now prepare tbee for another sight. He look'd, arid saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue ; by some were herci Of cattle grazing ; others, whence the sound Of instruments that made melodious chime 559 Was... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 536 pages
...martial, or civil ditties ; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions. The like also would not be unex? pedient after meat, to assist and cherish nature in her first concoction,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...thou liv'st Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven i And now prepare thee for another sight. He look'd: and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue; by some, were herds Of cattle grazing; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard, of... | |
 | 1810 - 492 pages
...stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties, which have power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them...gentle, from rustic harshness and distempered passions." Tractate of Education, prate warlet, .-limn. Edit. vol. it. p. 849. by every Briton, only to be found... | |
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