 | 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 chance breaks loose, And... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...spelling false, while one might walk to MilrEnd-Green. In the other he is more serious : — I did hut 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 : As when those... | |
 | 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, apes, and dogs." SONNET... | |
 | 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, apes, and dogs." SONNET XII.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...honour'd Margaret. 114 > JOHN MILTON. 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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 pages
...authority of some eminent men who favoured his opinion. The following lines are upon this subject : — " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the known rules of antient liberty; When strait a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls, and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou tauglit'st Cambridge, and King Edward, Greek. the disciples murmur and say, " it is not good to marry ?" I answer, that the disc ; When straight a barbarous noise environs me, Of owls, and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs : As when... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and Kinj 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, and dogs: As when those... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 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, and dogs : As when those... | |
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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... 
