 ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 92by John Milton - 1848Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...; musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...assenting to the force of reason and convincement,' &c. time, the imagination of the Poet and the belief of the Puritan : of materials so opposite was... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 528 pages
...lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting tij the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving uew notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? " Yet in the same wonderful composition he tells us plainly enough, and without any severity of rebuke,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Book industries and trade Great Britain History - 1854 - 350 pages
...notions and ideas." Others were, "as fast reading, trying all things." Milton asks, • Discoveries. " What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge f He truly answers : " wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puiaaant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 512 pages
...musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convince uieut. * * * * * . * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant people, rousing herself... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of snges. and of worthies ? we reckon more... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 516 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 594 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their image the approaching reformation. Others as fast, reading,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. AVbat could a man require more than an attention so pliant and so to seek after knowledge ? What wants... | |
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