 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
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 388 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and King Edward, Greek. 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,... | |
 | Charles E. Tomlinson - Political science - 1925 - 102 pages
...prose rather than to poetry. Still, there are glimpses in his few sonnets of his political sentiments. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty. He writes for freedom, but finds that there are those — That bawl for freedom... | |
 | Robert Lynd - Sonnets, English - 1927 - 78 pages
...before I slept. Sir John Davies K ON THE DETRACTION WHICH FOLLOWED UPON MY WRITING 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,... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 408 pages
...317. • Ibid. 1. 480-1. [On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing certain Treatises] (1645). 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 - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...317. « UU. 1. 480-1. [On the Detraction which Followed upon my Writing certain Treatises] (1645). 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,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp. When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. ON THE SAME (1645-6) 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 - Chivalry - 1913 - 972 pages
...in one of Milton's sonnets, "On the detraction which followed upon his writing certain treatises." "I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of ancient 1'berty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.... | |
 | C. D. Innes - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 316 pages
...Minetti's Lear, powerfully acting out the same image of despairing rejection as in Milton's 'detraction' 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... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...seventeenth-century maenad, embodied the feminine "licence" that Milton attacks in the sonnet's opening quatrain: 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 - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...their disproportioned bellies white, and in short they are now frogs, and dwell in the slimy pool.' I did but 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.... | |
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