 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 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; nay,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 472 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 - 1892 - 476 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... | |
 | William James Linton - Poets, American - 1893 - 234 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 dead to ;... | |
 | William James Linton - Poets, American - 1893 - 222 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 what its perverse inhabitants are dead to ; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer not, who didst make mankind... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...is 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, ' 0 earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...not called amiss " the good old cause ;" adding, " 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. Nay,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World history - 1904 - 710 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...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.... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Great Britain - 1907 - 148 pages
...home to glory." MR. PEPYS. [From a balcony.] " Lord, what a crowd! Come, dinner, dinner, dinner! " " / have spoken only to trees and 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."... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Great Britain - 1907 - 148 pages
...to glory." MR. PEPYS. [From a balcony.] " Lord, what a crowd ! Come, dinner, dinner, dinner ! " " 7 have spoken only to trees and stones, and had none to cry to, but tvith the prophet, ' Oh Earth, Earth, Earth! ' to tell the very soil itself what her 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! 
