 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 ページ
...says, " Men always suspect the voice of reason, and choose rather to be led by authority." So Milton, " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of antient liberty, When strait a barbarous race environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses, apes and dogs."... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 ページ
...of these dissertations in defence of domestick liberty, that he complains in his twelfth Sonnet. " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs " By...me " Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs," &c. And the preceding Sonnet on the same subject, is thus entitled, " On the Detraction which followed... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 ページ
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and king Edward Greek. 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 hinds that were transform'd to frogs Rail'd at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which after... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 ページ
...says, " Men always suspect the voice of reason, and choose rather to he led by authority." So Milton, " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the kno'.vn rules of antient liberty, When strait a barbarous race environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 538 ページ
...says, " Men always suspect the voice of reason, and choose rather to be led by authority." So Milton, " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the knof.vn rules of antient liberty, When strait a barbarous race environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 ページ
...spelling false, while one might walk to MilrEnd-Green. In the other he is more serious : — I did hut re is : As when those hiruU tlmt were transformed to frogs. Railed at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which after... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 ページ
...majesty's ships were ovcr-pestcrod, and clogged with great ordnance, whereof there is superfluity. Raleigh. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the known rules of ancient liberty. Milton's Paradise Regained. As a dog committed close For some offence, by chance breaks loose, And... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 ページ
...PRIEST wrote large;" — and he thus speaks in another place of this new order of " old priests :"— " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the...straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses, apes, and dogs." SONNET XII. handed engine " was turned against these " FORCERS of... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 332 ページ
...wrote large ;" — and he thus speaks in another place of this new order of " old priests :" — " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the...straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses, apes, and dogs." SONNET XII. These " old priests written large," because they were... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 ページ
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and king Edward Greek. 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 hinds that were transform'd to frogs Rail'd at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which after... | |
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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... 
