 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...him with ignorance and wrong he repelled their slanderous insolence with contemptuous indignation. 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - 1867 - 722 pages
...given to a council of war. II. ON THE DETRACTION WHICH FOLLOWED UPON THE WRITING OF 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... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1868 - 590 pages
...of my friend Mr. Quincy had been received reminded me of one of the sonnets of John 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, apes, and dogs." ' * Vol. IV.... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...learning worse than toad or asp, [Greek. When thou taught'st Cambridge and king Edward 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... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1869 - 578 pages
...of my friend Mr. Quincy had been received reminded me of one of the sonnets of John 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, apes, and dogs." * * Vol. IV.... | |
 | Edmund Quincy - 1869 - 594 pages
...friend Mr. Quincy had been received reminded me of one of the sonnets of John Milton : — ' " I dirt but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liherty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs." '... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 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, and dogs. As when those... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | John Milton - 1872 - 234 pages
...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, apes, and dogs ; That bawl... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 pages
...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, apes, and doffs: As when... | |
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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... 
