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... Forest Life - Page 62by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1811 - 550 pages
...to be lamented by every one who feels for the freedom, the dignity, and the honour of parliament. " 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," &c. &c. MILTON'S Sonnets.... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...University. He was afterwards made one of the tutors to Edward VI. See his life by SONNETS. XII. On the same. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When strait a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckows, asses, apes,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...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 known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1826 - 538 pages
...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,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...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,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...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... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - Anglican Communion - 1830 - 332 pages
...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 known rules of ancient liberty, — When straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses,... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1830 - 330 pages
...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 known rules of ancient liberty,— When straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls and cuccoos, asses,... | |
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