 | James McKeen Cattell - Education - 1918 - 906 pages
...the balance? Are the gifts which you reject devoid even of pecuniary value? What should ye do, thenf Should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge...new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this cityf Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...the full midday beam, purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognoslicat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...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 N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticat a year of sects and schisms.... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...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...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 - Philosophy - 1999 - 332 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain itself of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...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.... | |
 | Craig Kallendorf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...reminiscence of the following passage: "What should ye doe then, should ye suppresse all this flowry crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet...daily in this City, should ye set an Oligarchy of twenty ingrossers over it, to bring a famin upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 176 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticat a year of sects and schisms... | |
 | Roy C. Flannagan - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 144 pages
...the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long abused sight at the fountain it self of heav'nly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking...those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticai a year of sects and schisms.... | |
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam ; purging... 
