 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
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...Mlltou wrote this Sonnet In sport. — ToDlt. 1 Tclrachordon. This was one of Mil480 VII. 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 376 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. XH. 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',... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 722 pages
...given to a council of war. II. ON THE DETRACTION WHICH FOLLOWED UPON THE WRITING OF CERTAIN TREATISES. 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,... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...him with ignorance and wrong he repelled their slanderous insolence with contemptuous indignation. 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, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, [Greek. When thou taught'st Cambridge and king Edward 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,... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - Legislators - 1868 - 590 pages
...of my friend Mr. Quincy had been received reminded me of one of the sonnets of John Milton : — ' " 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,... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1869 - 578 pages
...of my friend Mr. Quincy had been received reminded me of one of the sonnets of John Milton: — ' " 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 - 1870 - 436 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and King Edward Greek. VII. 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 - 1871 - 530 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and King Edward Greek. VII. 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,... | |
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