 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 Seiten
...tastes more elegant, and their households more cheerful. Milton did not strictly belong to any of tbe classes which we have described. He was. not a Puritan....of every party were combined in harmonious union. Prom the parliament and from the court, from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister, from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 Seiten
...classes which we have described. He was not a Puritan, He was not a freethinker. He was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party...Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles c the Roundheads, and from the Christmas revel of. 7 hospitable Cavalier, his nature selected and drew... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 Seiten
...intellect as shown in his writings. " From the Parliament and from the court," says Mr. Macaulay ; " from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral rites of the Roundheads and from the Christmas revel of the hospitable cavalier, his nature selected... | |
 | 1861 - 838 Seiten
...characteristic. ' He was not a Puritan,' Maceulay says ; ' he was not a free-thinker ; he was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union.' So far as this is true at all, it is true merely of the superficial qualities of bin nature. If by... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1861 - 536 Seiten
...characteristic. " He was not a Puritan," Macaulay says ; " he was not a free-thinker ; he was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union." So far as this is true at all, it is true merely of the superficial qualities of his nature. If by... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1871 - 136 Seiten
...classes which we have described. He was not a Puritan. He was not a Freethinker. He was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party...and from the court, from the conventicle and from Gothic cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the roundheads, and from the Christmas revel... | |
 | Charles E. Grinnell - 1871 - 404 Seiten
...classes we have described. He was not a Puritan. He was not a Free-thinker. He was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union. — MACAULAY'S Essay on Milton. (Student's Ed. Essays.) Vol. i., p. 250. or in the Venus de Medici,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1876 - 514 Seiten
...ministry's."— Hume. — History of England. 11. John Milton (p. 262, IT 73).— " In the character of Milton the noblest qualities of every party were combined...parliament and from the court, from the conventicle aud from the Gothic cloister, from the gloomy aud sepulchral circles of the Roundheads and from the... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1878 - 56 Seiten
...classes we have described. He was not a Puritan. He was not a Free-thinker. He was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union. — MACAULAY'S Essay on Milton. (Student's Ed. Essays.) Vol. i., p. 259. or in the Venus de Medici,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1882 - 798 Seiten
...military enterprises went far to realize this saying. John Milton,* * " In the character of Milton the noblest qualities of every party were combined...cloister, from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the the poet, acted as Foreign Secretary under Cromwell, and wrote in defense of the Commonwealth. 62.... | |
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Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described. He was not a Puritan. He was not a freethinker. He was not a Royalist. In his character the noblest qualities of every party were combined in harmonious union. 
