 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 464 pagina’s
...wrote a short tract on the ready and easy way to establish a free commonwealth,3 concluding with these noble words : " Thus much I should perhaps have said,...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, Oh, " earth ! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her " perverse inhabitants are deaf... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1890 - 590 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, " 0 earth, earth, earth ! " to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1884 - 348 pagina’s
...Cause. 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...spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to hut with the Prophet, 0 Earth, Earth, Earth I to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 456 pagina’s
...strange to any, it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said though I were sure I should have spoken...earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 472 pagina’s
...strange to any, it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said though I were sure I should have spoken...earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to ; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 476 pagina’s
...strange to any, it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said though I were sure I should have spoken...earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to ; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer... | |
 | William James Linton - 1893 - 234 pagina’s
...strange to say, it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said, though I were sure I should have spoken...earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are dead to ; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer... | |
 | John Milton - 1894 - 228 pagina’s
...; 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...cry to but with the prophet " O earth, earth, earth l" to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1900 - 364 pagina’s
...is not called amiss ' The good old Cause.' . . . 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, ' 0 earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pagina’s
...not called amiss " the good old cause ;" adding, " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones...perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have spoke should happen (which Thou suffer not who didst create mankind free, nor Thou next who didst redeem... | |
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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! 
