 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...than there be pens and heads there, 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. . . . What could a man require more from a nation so pliant, and so prone to seek after knowledge ?... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their...reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reasrn and convinceinent. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek... | |
 | Stephen C. Behrendt - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 278 pages
...Vision of the Last Judgment. The sentiment itself recalls the note struck by Milton in the Areopagitica: What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soul but wise and faithful laborers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 1985 - 468 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...after knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly 1 " and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets,... | |
 | Dai Liu - History - 1986 - 266 pages
...than there be pens and heads there, 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." Though idealized by Milton in the above passage. London was, indeed, a city of "new notions and ideas"... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (553-54) From this image of harmony in variety, productive, progressive activity from the multiplicity... | |
 | David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (n, 554) The "shop of warre" suggests that the godly people must not only challenge and refashion traditional... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - History - 1990 - 308 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation" (11.553-4). Here the notion of defense refers not only to a process of energetic social activity; it... | |
 | Francis Barker - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 280 pages
...than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. (Milton 1958, p. 177) In the light of this invocation of the city at war, a certain kind of historicism... | |
 | Richard Burt - Political Science - 1994 - 420 pages
...its institutional and linguistic embodiments. His presentation of the active citizens of London as "reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement" (554) conveys this tension between Truth as absolute and Truth as process. Milton's position is not... | |
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... 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... 
