 | John Milton - 1826 - Страниц: 368
...reforming of reformation itself. What does he then but reveal himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen ? I say as his manner is, first to us, though we mark riot the method of his counsels, and are unworthy. Behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - Страниц: 624
...commotion in England, which Milton draws in his ' Areopagitica,' is truly appalling. ' Behold,' says he, ' this vast city, a city of "refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with its protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the... | |
 | 1832 - Страниц: 528
...draws a frightful picture of the state of society at that day in the Areopagitica. " Behold (he says) this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with its protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - Страниц: 394
...of the agitation — the commotion — of mind, at this moment in the capital. " Behold," says he, " behold now this vast city ; a city of refuge, the...mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his (God's) protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Страниц: 274
...before she threw down the gauntlet to her own sons, or marshalled her forces for the open field. " Behold now this vast city, — a city of refuge, —...mansion-house of liberty, — encompassed and surrounded with God's protection : the shop of war hath not there more hammers and anvils working to fashion out the... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 674
...liberty of unlicensed printing. Hearken to the peal of eloquence which swells through this sentence : — "Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the...mansion-house " of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with God's protection : the shop of " war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 468
...metropolis, in one of his immortal prose compositions, Areopagitica, he exclaims ; " Behold now the vast city — a city of refuge — the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with God's protection — the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - Страниц: 918
...factions, the din of warfare, and the going forth of its sons and husbands to battle in a great cause:—" Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his (God's) protections. The shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking to fashion out the... | |
 | 1841 - Страниц: 832
...Never was the old proverb less true— " Inter Martis strepitus, silent musae." "Behold," says Milton, "this vast city : a city of refuge — the mansionhouse of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with God's protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the... | |
 | 1847 - Страниц: 606
...advantage of society that inherent force which incessantly transforms it. NATIONALITY IN LITERATURE. " Behold, now, this vast city : a city of refuge, the...mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with (iod's protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to ia.*hion out the... | |
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Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen? I say, as His manner is, first to us, though we mark not the method of His counsels, and are unworthy. 
