 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
 | 1878 - 500 pages
...consequences that followed the triumph of his party is well put in the familiar lines of 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 152 pages
...Richard //., I. iii. 200: 'The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.' Cfc also Milton's Sonnet xii. i : I 1 did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty.' 48. Buffering country under = country suffering under. This transposition... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 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,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Mythology, Classical - 1881 - 518 pages
...Milton's sonnets,. " On the detraction which followed upon his writing certain treatises." '' I <1U1 ("it prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and king Edward Greek. XII. ON THE SAME. DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, AVhen straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1883 - 252 pages
...set ' in, and take possession of our clergy.'— PW, 5' 372' JS..-J12 1645-6. ST. 38. 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,... | |
 | William Black - 1884 - 494 pages
...would feel so much indignation as that if you would carry about this sonnet with you in your memory : ' 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,... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1884 - 326 pages
...anxious to claim originality. As the Long Parliament had appealed to historic precedents, so Milton did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty. This suits the English character; it loves indeed to cherish individuality,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1886 - 536 pages
...oblige me to apply to myself those lines of the immortal John Milton, in one of his sonnets: — " ' 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 - Poetry - 1887 - 258 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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