...amplitude of those frequent songs throughout the law and the prophets which he held " incomparable," not in " their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, over all the kinds of lyric poetry." Dr. Ionian Coleman, in his " Apostolical and Primitive Church,"...

...the highest and most complete examples in illustration of his own precepts — John Milton : — " These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...(though most abuse) in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public...

...Milton says in The Reason of Church Government1 that the Psalms are better than Pindar and Callimachus 'not in their divine argument alone but in the very critical art of composition', critical art must surely, by this idiom, mean the art that critics expound; those who practice it are...

...and that the poet combines the roles of teacher, orator, priest and especially the Hebrew prophet : These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the...(though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public...

...throughout the law and prophets beyond all these [ie the odes and hymns of Pindar and Callimachus], not in their divine argument alone, but in the very...composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable.' Thus Milton, agreeing with Hooker (Eccles. Pol. 5. 37. 2), has declared...

...Heavenly Harpings and Song between." Milton revered the dramatic along with the lyric works of the Bible "not in their divine argument alone but in the very critical art of composition" (RCG 3 : 238). The Savior in PR clearly reflects this particular opinion. Milton's attitudes toward...

...some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most an end faulty: But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these,...composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable. (CP, 1, 815-16) In Paradise Regained, Christ corrects literary history...

...Callimachus are in most things worthy," he says, " But those frequent songs throughout the law and the prophets, beyond all these, not in their divine argument...very critical art of composition, may be easily made to appear, over all the kinds of lyric poetry, to be incomparable." Foster. Does Milton anywhere speak...

...Callimachus, he adds that 'those frequent songs throughout the Law and the Prophets' are superior 'not only in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition'. 722 (p. 466) rubric (literally, 'painted in red') a heading or set of instructions. In lines 382-93,...

...some others in their frame judicious, in their matter most an end faulty: But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these,...composition may be easily made appear over all the kinds of Lyrick poesy, to be incomparable. These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired guift...