| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I Avere sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants arc deaf to.... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 636 pages
...more strange, I hope, than convincing to hacksliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth !" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to but, with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...when it had been so often pointed out. ' Thus much I should perhaps have said,' he concludes, ' though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself, what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to :... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what,her perverse inhabitants are-deaf to;... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself...perverse inhabitants are deaf to; nay, though what 1 have spoken should happen, which Thou suffer not, who didst create mankind free ! nor Thou next,... | |
| 1829 - 550 pages
...more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should, perhaps, have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...Stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet ' O earth, earth, eurth !' to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
| Southern States - 1829 - 552 pages
...sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself,...perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have spoken should happen (which thou sutler not, who didst create mankind free, nor thou next, who didst... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...seem more strange, I hope than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, O Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
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