 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 pages
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. 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 ! ' to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1887 - 564 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 and stones ; and liad none to cry to but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth !" to tell the very soil itself what... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 458 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, ' O earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 456 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, ' O earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 450 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, ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to;... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. 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 ! " to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 468 pages
...convincing to backsliders. Thus ' much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spiken 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.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 464 pages
...a free commonwealth,3 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... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1890 - 590 pages
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. 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, " 0 earth, earth, earth ! " to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - Church history - 1884 - 348 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 and stones; and had none to cry to hut with the Prophet, 0 Earth, Earth, Earth I to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants... | |
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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! 
