 | John Milton - 1873 - 606 หน้า
...Cambridge, and king Edward Greek. xif. ON THE SAME. I BID but prompt the age to quit their clogU . By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes,' and dogs :4 1 Tetrachordon means exposition on Scottish writer against . tjfe i indeperithe four chief places... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 752 หน้า
...been enough for him to repeat to himself, by way of comment, the lines he had already written — " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, AVhen straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs ; " or perhaps,... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 หน้า
...noise. ] 'A noise of musicians anciently signified a concert or company of them.' So probably— ' When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs.' Sonnet, xi. The simile is taken from Pindar, ' TOyyXuavff Ki!paKcs &s txptunu yapvffj.fv Aibs irpbs... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 หน้า
...the University of Cambridge, and afterwards made one of the tutors to Edward VI. XII. ON THE SAME. I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and doga : As when those hinds1 that were transform'd to frogs Rail'd at Latona's2 twin-born progeny, Which... | |
 | 1909 - 502 หน้า
...learning worse than toad or asp. When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. ON THE SAME (1645-6) I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs ; As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs Railed at Latona's twin-born progeny, Which after... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 หน้า
...in one of Milton's sonnets, "On the detraction which followed upon his writing certain treatises." "I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of ancient 1'berty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes... | |
 | C. D. Innes - 1979 - 316 หน้า
...Minetti's Lear, powerfully acting out the same image of despairing rejection as in Milton's 'detraction' I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs, By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. - a parallel which helps to explain why Bernhard has been so vituperously attacked by the radical left... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers - 1986 - 464 หน้า
...seventeenth-century maenad, embodied the feminine "licence" that Milton attacks in the sonnet's opening quatrain: I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the...environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs. By recalling Comus's band of revelers, this barbarous menagerie further clarifies the issues at stake... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 หน้า
...65. Compare Sonnet 12, which he wrote about the hostile reaction to his divorce tracts, which begins, "I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs / By the known rules of ancient liberty." 66. Compare Leonard Goldstein, "The Good Old Cause and Milton's Blank Verse," Zeitschrift fur Anglistik... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 หน้า
...their disproportioned bellies white, and in short they are now frogs, and dwell in the slimy pool.' I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known laws of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes... | |
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I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs... 
