 | John Milton - 1872 - 250 pages
...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, apes, and dogs ; That bawl... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...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, and dogs : As when those... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...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, and Dogs ; As when those... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...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, and toward the coast of Earth... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 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 doga : As when those... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...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 the writer's end ; For none... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1876 - 628 pages
...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, and dogs . . . But this... | |
 | 1878 - 500 pages
...consequences that followed the triumph of his party is well put in the familiar lines of 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 : * » » •... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...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 the writer's end; For none... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 152 pages
...Richard //., I. iii. 200: 'The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.' Cfc also Milton's Sonnet xii. i : I 1 did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty.' 48. Buffering country under = country suffering under. This transposition of adjectives is very frequent... | |
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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... 
