 ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...  Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking - Sivu 291tekijä(t) Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 362 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Marcus Cunliffe - 1959 - 232 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of rimorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." A fine piece of spread-eagle prose. The facts, though, were incontrovertible whatever the interpretations... | |
 | 1909 - 378 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise1™ of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 sivua
...49 BJM fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds. . .flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. Areopagitica 1644 Further reading Two detailed books on Milton's pamphleteering on the subject of church... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1983 - 484 sivua
...her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth . . . while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds ... in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." 6 January 1. On 12 June 1786 George Robert Fitzgerald was executed for the murder of Patrick McDonald.... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms" (II, 558). A rejection of the past is suggested both by the participle "mewing" and by those participles... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 sivua
...noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sect and schisms. "J3 Milton is not afraid of the inevitable schisms. "When God shakes a Kingdom with... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - 1999 - 276 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. The prose reference is clearly rhetorical. It occurs in a work written with a definite audience in... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 sivua
...Parliament, who are now recognisable as the "timorous and flocking birds . . . that love the twilight . . . and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms."13 This was far more than literary polish. It was unembarrassed utopianism, looking to the... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble0 would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. What should ye do then, should ye suppress... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 78 sivua
...itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. What should ye do then, should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung... | |
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