...than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and king Edward, Greek. ' XII. ON THE SAME. 3 HID 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 : As when those...

...him endeavoured to put him down by clamour or by authority, instead of replying to his arguments. " 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. But this...

...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and king Edward, Greek. ON THE SAME. 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, as'ses, apes and dogs : As when those...

...picture vanisheth away, Ne any token doth thereof abide. SPENSER. • •mi-- LATONA AND THE RUSTICS. 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,...

...literally shouted, — Tally ho ! Has anything been heard so stupid as this since Milton wrote ? — " 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 : But this...

...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge, and King Edward, Greek. ON THE SAME. 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 cuccoos, asses, apes and dogs : As when those...

...Instead, the moderator said he witnessed what he could describe best in the words of Milton, — " 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 ; " — uttering...

...Mlltou wrote this Sonnet In sport. — ToDlt. 1 Tclrachordon. This was one of Mil480 VII. ON THE SAME. 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 : As when those...

...learning worse than toad or asp, When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward Greek. XH. ON THE SAME. 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 : As when those...

...not written in Latin instead of in the vulgar tongue, and from the language of his Twelfth Sonnet. 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 : As when those...