...: — ' These abilities are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections to a right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty...

...abilities," says Milton, " are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed; and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility—to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in a right tune—to celebrate,...

...account of the destiny on which he brooded was scarcely less figuratively expressed. He tells how ' these abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift ' of God, rarely bestowed, yet to some (though most abuse) in ' every nation ; ' and emphatically repeats how he was led on by...

...great poetical powers, which he was most anxious to cultivate. Of these he speaks thus magnificently. " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...some, though most abuse, in every nation; and are of power,—to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility—to allay...

...they be revered and esteemed amongst us ! " They are of power," to use his own words, " to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility." They will be lost, only with our language : — the tide of his song will cease to flow, only with...

...of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. 12. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations...

...their fancies, with their garlands and singing robes about them." " These abilities," he goes on, " wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great...

...of composition, may be easily made to appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...(though most abuse) in every nation ; and are of power, besides the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public...

...gifts, rarely bestowed ;f and to presume, that even in the * See Lamb's Dedication to his Poems. ' " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God products of his most careless genial moods, there is something which the world " should not willingly...

...functions of the imagination ever uttered : " These abilities, (by which the grandest poetry is produced,) wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of...power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the...