 | Richard Chenevix Trench - Hymns, Latin - 1849 - 346 pages
...seen are indeed most of them but merits pushed into excess. And even accepting them as defects, his profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...exposition of Scripture,— the abundant and admirable use, with indeed the drawback already mentioned, which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his poems... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1849 - 394 pages
...seen are indeed most of them but merits pushed into excess. And even accepting them as defects, his profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...of Scripture, — the abundant and admirable use, with indeed the drawback already mentioned, which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his poems... | |
 | Religion - 1863 - 262 pages
...estimate of Adam : if it have a fault, I think that it hardly does this wonderful poet justice. " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...his! poems from the merely subjective cast of those, beau-\ tiful as they are, of S. Bernard,— the exquisite art and variety with which for the most part... | |
 | Mediaeval hymns - 1863 - 256 pages
...estimate of Adam: if it haee a fault, I think that it hardly does this wonderful poet justice. " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture,—the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his poems... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1867 - 244 pages
...estimate of Adam : if it hare a fault, I think that it hardly does this wonderful poet justice. " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture,—the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering as he thus does his poems... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1867 - 254 pages
...estimate of Adam : if it have a fault, I think that it hardly does this wonderful poet justice. " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the theology of his time, and eminently with its expositiou of Scripture, — the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering as he... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Hymn writers - 1869 - 668 pages
...gives the following minute and discriminative account of Adam's distinctive excellences : — ' His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...subjective cast of those, beautiful as they are, of S. Bernard ; the exquisite art and variety with which, for the most part, his verse is managed ind... | |
 | Hymns, Latin - 1874 - 374 pages
...seen are indeed most of them but merits pushed into excess. And even accepting them as defects, his profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture,—the abundant and admirable use, with indeed the drawback already mentioned, which he makes... | |
 | Francis Andrew March - Hymns, Latin - 1875 - 336 pages
...and published 106 hymns (Œuvres Poétiques d'Adam de St. Victor. Paris, 1858). Trench says: " His profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...exposition of Scripture ; the abundant and admirable use, with indeed the drawback already mentioned (too free and curious use), which he makes of it, delivering,... | |
 | American essays - 1879 - 978 pages
...morte nos sccundi Tua salvet gratia." After making all allowance for his defects, Trench says that "his profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the...the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, the exquisite art and variety with which for the most part his verse is managed and his rhymes disposed,... | |
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Ii profound acquaintance with the whole circle of the theology of his time, and eminently with its exposition of Scripture; the abundant and admirable use which he makes of it, delivering, as he thus does, his poems from the merely subjective cast of... 
