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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 261
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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Notes and Queries, Volume 57

Questions and answers - 1878 - 668 pages
...a higher mood." " But though the treacherous tapster Thomas Hangs a new Angel two doors from us." " How war may best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage " (me). All from Burke's Regicide Peace. SKtflitS. WORKS ON THE TRADING ROUTES PROJI EAST TO WEST,...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 79

Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...Лоте, when Gowne not Arms^repeU'd The fierce Epeirot and the African bold. [So much on p. 93.] Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be epell'd Then to advise how war may beet upheld, Move by her two main Nerves, Iron and Gold In all her...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 9

American essays - 1862 - 884 pages
...senator,— •' Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The hollow drift of States, hard to be spelled; Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her...main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage." The list of his writings appended by Mr. Upham to his instructive biography of our quondam fellow-citizen...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...not armes repelld The feirce Efeirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold 5 The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelld, Then to advise how warr may best, upheld, Move by her two maine nerves, Iron and Gold In all her equipage; besides to...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled ; Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all...
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Recueil Des Cours, Collected Courses 1930, Volume 34

Academie De Droit International De La Ha, Hague Academy of International Law - Law - 1970 - 956 pages
...quand, dans son sonnet à Sir Henry Vane, il décrit la tâche de l'homme d'Etat dans la guerre : « to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and 9old * In ail her equipage. » Le sang et le fer ne sont pas, comme on le dit à tort, les seuls éléments...
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Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 1623-1677

Jonathan Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 276 pages
...young in years, but in sage counsel old than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome ... to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned which few have done. The bounds of either sword to thee we owe; Therefore on thy...
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Milton in Government

Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 309 pages
...reassure them. Whatever its date, Vt Tandem is a Dutch document; hence, the Latin is clearly not Milton's. Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of...upheld, Move by her two main nerves, Iron and Gold. (Sonnet 17) The deliberations continued, and indeed the English began to relax some of their positions,...
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Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science

Mark Turner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 316 pages
...Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. (Izaak Walton) Then to advise how warr may best, upheld, / Move by her two main nerves, Iron and Gold / In all her equipage. (Milton, "The Vane sonnet") The knee is the Achilles' heel of the leg. (Quoted by Douglas Hofstadter)...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...letter Senatour nere held The lelme ofKome, wlengownes not armes repeUd Tbefeirce Epeirot %F tie African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow Hates, lard to lefyettd, Then to advise how warr may left, upheld, Move by her two maine nerves, Iron...
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