 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 372 sayfa
...array. The time for opening the poll was near at hand, and not a moment was to be lost. CHAPTER XXXVI. " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of modern liherty." Mil/row. " GENTLEMEN," said the orator, taking off bis hat and waving it in... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 262 sayfa
...The time for opening the poll was near at hand, and not a moment was to be lost. 35 CHAPTER XXXYI. 1 did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of modern liberty. MILTON. " GENTLEMEN," said the orator, taking off his hat and waving it in... | |
 | John Jaques - 1843 - 426 sayfa
...often like Sir Philip Francis. Lord Byron's " Vision of Judgment.' THE CONFLICTS AND PERILS OF JUNIUS. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs. Milton. I 've read of men beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes he gave;... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 sayfa
...would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, ON THE SAME. I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs : As when those hinds, that were transform'd to frogs, Rail'd at Latona's twin-bom progeny, Which after... | |
 | 1843 - 404 sayfa
...writing in favor of liberty : I did but prompt the age to quit their elogs, By the known rules of aneient Liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs ; As when those hinds, that- were transformed to frogs, Rail'd at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 sayfa
...lines in reference to the detraction which : (ailed him on account of his writing in favor of liberty : I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the known rules of aneient Liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1844 - 252 sayfa
...The time for opening the poll was near at hand, and not a moment was to be lost. 35 CHAPTER XXXVI. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of modern liberty. MILTOH. " GENTLEMEN," said the orator, taking off his hat and waving it in... | |
 | 1846 - 844 sayfa
...Johnson remarks, is contemptible, and the other not excellent. But the reader shall judge for himself. " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs : As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs Railed at Latona's twin born progeny, Which after... | |
 | John Adams - 1851 - 666 sayfa
...Milton, in one of Ms sonnets, will bear an application, even in this country, upon some occasions : — " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me, Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs." These great writers, however, will convince any man who has the fortitude to read them, that all good... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 sayfa
...the University of Cambridge, and afterwards made one of the tutors to Edward VI. XII. ON THE SAME. I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs : As when those hinds1 that were transform'd to frogs Rail'd at Latona's2 twin-born progeny, Which... | |
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I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs... 
