...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise VOL. III. U and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of prophets, of sages, and of...

...musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching Reformation: others as fast...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile but wise and faithfull labourers to make a knowing People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages and...

...homage and their fealty 111 Cultivated. "'Used of the German forests. 114 Inclining. "* Conducted. the approaching Reformation : others as fast reading,...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies. We reckon more...

...Vision of the Last Judgment. The sentiment itself recalls the note struck by Milton in the Areopagitica: What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soul but wise and faithful laborers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of...

...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty...after knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly 1 " and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets,...

...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." Though idealized by Milton in the above passage. London was, indeed, a city of "new notions and ideas"...

...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (553-54) From this image of harmony in variety, productive, progressive activity from the multiplicity...

...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (n, 554) The "shop of warre" suggests that the godly people must not only challenge and refashion traditional...

...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation" (11.553-4). Here the notion of defense refers not only to a process of energetic social activity; it...

...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (Milton 1958, p. 177) In the light of this invocation of the city at war, a certain kind of historicism...