 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 - Seite 62von Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1842 - 484 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 Seiten
...lines, doubtless described his own feelings, when, at the age of POETRY, PATRIOTISM, AND PIEn. 117 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 - 1872 - 234 Seiten
...lines, doubtless described his own feelings, when, at the age o£ POETRY, PATRIOTISM, AND PIET\. 117 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 Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 Seiten
...deities in arms to quench her thirst at a small lake, and who were in consequence changed into frogs. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, \\ hon straight a barbarous noise environs roe Of owls and cuckoos, asses,... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 Seiten
...by Milton himself in MS. to the two Sonnets together ; but they may have heen written separately. i. 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 - 1873 - 678 Seiten
...Cambridge, and was afterwards one of the tutors of Edward VI. See his biography, 480 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 - 1874 - 758 Seiten
...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, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 Seiten
...wild While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger fits." — Od. Nat. 29—31. ' I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me."-—Sonwt XII. " Took leave,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 Seiten
...HARTE. Courtling, I rather thou shouldst utterly Dispraise my work than praise it frostily. BEN JONSON. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me. MILTON. In every work regard... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 Seiten
...indited by Milton on the detraction which followed upon his writing certain treatises, begins, — " 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...HARTE. Courtling, I rather thpu shouldst utterly Dispraise my work than praise it frostily. BEN JONSON. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me. MILTON. In ever)' work regard... | |
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