| 1846 - 396 σελίδες
...free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words: " 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, Oh earth! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
| 1846 - 508 σελίδες
...not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have eaid though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, О ! earth, earth, earth '. — to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 σελίδες
...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 - 1851 - 472 σελίδες
...convincing to Backfliders. Thus much I mould perhaps have faid, though I were fure / mould have fpoken only to Trees and Stones ; and had none to cry to,...Prophet, 0 Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very Soil it felf, what her perverfe Inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have fpoke, mould happ'n (which... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 σελίδες
...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.... | |
| 1853 - 530 σελίδες
...free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words : " 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, Oh earth ! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 554 σελίδες
...seems to imply that he then admitted their coequality. ' 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 itself what her perverse inhabitants 2 See also Paradim... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 546 σελίδες
...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 2 See also Paradise Lost, III. 303— 307. 3 Of Reformation in England. Prose Works, II. 371. * Prose... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 σελίδες
...not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1858 - 560 σελίδες
...more strange, 1 hope, than 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, ' О earth, earth, earth ! * to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
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