 I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions of spirits, of their manner of life, their powers, their boundless liberty, and the scenes which they inhabit or traverse ; and my wonted enthusiasm kindled high. I almost wished for death ; and...  The Life and Correspondence of John Foster - Stranica 111napisao/la John Foster - 1846Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | John Foster - 1846 - Broj stranica: 496
...286. My life has been a stream spread into listless diffusion, but ere long it must assume a denned channel, and a quickened motion. I wait to see the...really are, into which death will turn the spirit free II cannot wonder, and I can easily pardon, that this intense and sublime curiosity has sometimes demolished... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - Broj stranica: 340
...286. My life has been a stream spread into listless diffusion, but ere long it must assume a denned channel, and a quickened motion. I wait to see the...what that life, and what those strange regions really arc, into which death will turn the spirit free ! I cannot wonder, and I can easily pardon, that this... | |
 | 1846 - Broj stranica: 780
...sunrise in the vale of Cnamouni. Is not the same poetic character discernible in both ': rOSTEK. " I hare been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...spirits, of their manner of life, their powers, their bound, less liberty, and the scenes which they inhabit or traverse ; and my wonted enthusiasm kindled... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1847 - Broj stranica: 606
...hymn before sunrise in the vale of Chamouni. Is not the same poetic character discernible in both ? " I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...enthusiasm kindled high. I almost wished for death, and considered with great admiration what that life and what those strange regions really were, into which... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - Broj stranica: 558
...from the pen of Foster : — "I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions of spirits, their manner of life, their powers, their boundless...my wonted enthusiasm kindled high. I almost wished lor death, and considered with great admiration what that life and what those strange regions really... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - Broj stranica: 344
...come, something " perfect" in the condition of man ! 33. Lofty aspirations for the future life. — I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...wondered with great admiration what that life and what tnose strange regions really are, into which death will turn the spirit free! I can not wonder, and... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - Broj stranica: 342
...come, something " perfect" in the condition of man! 33. Lofty aspirations for the future life.—I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...wondered with great admiration what that life and what tnose strange regions really are, into which death will turn the spirit free! I can not wonder, and... | |
 | 1866 - Broj stranica: 850
...answeringthe azure smiles of I leaven that gleam between, with a Vulcanian frown. " I have been reading sume of Milton's amazing descriptions of spirits, of their...enthusiasm kindled high. I almost wished for death ; mid wondered with great admiration what that life, and whatthose strange regions really are, into... | |
 | Matthew Baxter - 1868 - Broj stranica: 268
...Bradford, the martyr. Let us just attend for a moment to the study-thoughts of the great John Foster. " I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...those strange regions really are into which death will turi the spirit free ! I cannot wonder, and I can easily pardon, that this intense and sublime curiosity... | |
 | Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1869 - Broj stranica: 230
...John Foster was rapt into ecstacy with it. In a letter to a Christian friend he thus wrote : — " I have been reading some of Milton's amazing descriptions...really are, into which death will turn the spirit free. Oh, what is it to be dead ! what is it to shoot into the expansion, and kindle into the ardours of... | |
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