 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 страници
...Earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restor'd : Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the_,wpr.k pf. fear ; At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unaware... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 страници
...earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...misdoing, but unware Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving, By words at times cast forth, inly rejoiced, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 страници
...earth, Brute violence and proud tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored: Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words...misdoing, but unware Misled; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving-, By words at times cast forth, inly rejoiced, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 страници
...sentiment is very fitly put into the mouth of him, who came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make...misdoing, but unware Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue. These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving By words at times cast forth inly rejoic'd, The allitteration... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1824 - 428 страници
...warn and rebuke; he hesitated not to declare the certain and awful penalties of sin; " Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first, By winning words...hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear."* It will he seen that his style is plain, perspicuous, unaffected, copious. His taste avoided all gorgeous... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 страници
...from re straint, and restored in then- purity to the world ;— to instruct and guide the meek, — By winning words to conquer willing hearts And make persuasion do the work of fear; — to rrc'aim erring souls; — and to execute the most signal vengeance upon the incorrigible enemies... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 страници
...;] Alluding to those charming lines, i. 221. Yet held it more humane, more heav'nly first By willing words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. But Satan did not hear this; it was part of our Saviour's selfconverse and private meditation. Their... | |
 | 1825 - 788 страници
...for his determination, in the spirit of the Christian's great Exemplar, as described by Milton : — At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully mis-doing, but unaware Misled. Hig work is now before me as " translated from the German," and published in 1768,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 страници
...for his determination, in the spirit of the Christian's great Exemplar, as described by Milton : — At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully mis-doing, but unaware Misled. His work is now before me as " translated from the German," and published in 1768,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 страници
...tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restor'd : Yet held it more humane, more heav'nly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts,...fear ; At least to try, and teach the erring soul Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue. aas These growing thoughts my mother soon perceivingBy words... | |
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Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear... 
