 | John Adams - 1851 - 666 pages
...Milton, in one of Ms sonnets, will bear an application, even in this country, upon some occasions : — " 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." These great... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | Lucien Bonaparte Chase - 1854 - 276 pages
...utmost vigor, now and then accompanying it with n. rub-a-dub upon an imaginary drum. CHAPTER XX. " 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 cuckuos, asses, apes, and dogs." — MILTON.... | |
 | Washington Wilks - 1854 - 308 pages
...I can offer, on his behalf, no better apology than the example of ' some illustrious names : — ' 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 : • * *... | |
 | 1855 - 364 pages
...might make appropriate to him the language of Milton, in relation to kindred efforts for other truths : 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 cuckeos, asses, apes, and dogs, But this is... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taughtest 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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 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... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1855 - 508 pages
...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 liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 pages
...in reference to the detraction wluch M tailed him on account of his writing in favor of liberty: . 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 tlioso... | |
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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... 
