 | John Milton - 1851 - 472 pages
...convincing to Backfliders. Thus much I mould perhaps have faid, though I were fure / mould have fpoken only to Trees and Stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, 0 Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very Soil it felf, what her perverfe Inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 554 pages
...which seems to imply that he then admitted their coequality. ' Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...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 2 See also Paradim... | |
 | Biography - 1853 - 530 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words : " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, Oh earth ! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...not 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...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, '0 earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, ' 0 earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1858 - 560 pages
...seem 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...earth, earth ! * to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have spoke should happen (which Thou suffer... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Economics - 1859 - 418 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those noble words, " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 396 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those noble words, " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...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,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Value - 1859 - 404 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those noble words, " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...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,... | |
 | Theology - 1860 - 928 pages
...not called amiss, 'The Good Old Cause.' . . . Thus much I should, perhaps, have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet : O earth, earth, earth 1 to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
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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! 
