 | Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - 2003 - 348 pagina’s
...his commitment to the Good Old Cause, finding succor in the prospect of eventual political renewal: Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were...perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have spoke should happen ... to be the last words of our expiring liberty. But I trust I shall have spoken... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...cause': if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were...trees and stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet,0 'O earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2005 - 529 pagina’s
...has the potential to be redeemed in the apocalyptic moment of Blake's poem. 19 Milton, Works, 6:148: "Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were...Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to." 20 Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, ed.... | |
 | Margaret Kean - 2005 - 196 pagina’s
...republicanism. seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, then convincing to backsliders.' Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, 0 earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.4 Nay... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1883 - 592 pagina’s
...Cau.se. If it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones ; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, » Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
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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! 
