 | Denis Saurat - 1925 - 388 pagina’s
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth ! " to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | John Milton - 1927 - 208 pagina’s
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pagina’s
...convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, "O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pagina’s
...is spoken by a rhetorician alienated from his audience: 'Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to'.35... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 1990 - 216 pagina’s
...seem more strange, I hope, then convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pagina’s
...spoken. Like Jeremiah, he would speak if only to the earth: "Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to say to with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - 1991 - 144 pagina’s
...The Readie and Easie Way Milton quotes Jeremiah, saying "thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, 'O earth, earth, earthl to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to' " (MPW... | |
 | John S. Tanner - 1992 - 226 pagina’s
...none should heed their warning voices; they felt called to bear witness: "Thus much I should perhaps have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to" (CP,... | |
 | William Malin Porter - 1993 - 234 pagina’s
...trees and stones: and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the verv soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to, Nay though what I have spoke, should happ'n twhich Thou suffer not, who didst create mankind free: nor Thou next, who didst redeem us from... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pagina’s
...undoes the trope in his allusion to the biblical verse: Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. (CFW7:462-3)... | |
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Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! 
