... 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, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 1771904Full view - About this book
| Philip Smith - Great Britain - 1868 - 394 pages
...more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defense of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads...musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas. " But there was still another and a mightier force at work. It was a war of religion ; and here the... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth,...ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to... | |
| Charles Taber Congdon - New York tribune - 1869 - 446 pages
...The shop of war hath not more anvils and hammers working to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice In defence of beleaguered truth,...new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with homage and fealty, the approaching reformation."-- JOHN MILTON'S Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed... | |
| Charles Taber Congdon - New York tribune - 1869 - 444 pages
...The shop of war hath not more anvils and hammers working to fashion oat the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth,...heads there, sitting by their studious lamps musing, eearching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with homage and fealty, the approaching... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to... | |
| John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to... | |
| 1870 - 790 pages
...those signs of promise which Milton hailed — " much arguing, much writing, ' many opinions," — " pens and heads 'there, sitting by their studious 'lamps,...ideas wherewith to ' present, as with their homage and 'their fealty, the approaching refor' mation," I could not but believe that I might get some certain... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagurcd truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. . . . What could a man require more from a nation so pliant,... | |
| William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth,...ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation,... | |
| David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed Justice in defence of beleaguered Truth,...ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Keformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to... | |
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