Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king. Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 40by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 114 pagesFull view - About this book
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| 1825 - 570 pages
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two différent men — the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude,...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
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...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men— the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude,...passion ; the other, proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious, lie prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set bis foot on the neck of his king. In... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1826 - 596 pages
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! " Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 366 pages
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| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring 55 God! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set 60 his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set GO his foot on the neck of the king. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Great Britain - 1830 - 592 pages
...placed before us. The modern critic has discovered that " the Puritan was made up of two different men ; the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious." In this dual man, one was he who would dash into pieces the idolatry of painted glass, break down antique... | |
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...the sufferings and death of the Saviour of the world. Thus, the Puritan was made up of two different men; the one, all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude,...terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of beatific vision, or woke screaming from dreams... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...had shuddered at the sufferings of her expiring God ! Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude,...prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers... | |
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