 | 1914 - 680 pages
...convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have 1o spoken only to trees and stones, and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, 0 earth, earth, earth: to tell the verie Soil it self || what her perverse inhabitants are deaf t0.... | |
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 400 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.... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1927 - 208 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. Nay,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken 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,... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 790 pages
...peroration is spoken by a rhetorician alienated from his audience: '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 it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to'.35... | |
 | David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...not seem more strange, I hope, then 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 it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - History - 1990 - 308 pages
...have spoken. Like Jeremiah, he would speak if only to the earth: "Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to say to with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! to tell the very soil it self, what her perverse inhabitants... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - Autobiography - 1991 - 144 pages
...paragraph of The Readie and Easie Way Milton quotes Jeremiah, saying "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, earthl to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to' " (MPW... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...none should heed their warning voices; they felt called to bear witness: "Thus much I should perhaps 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 it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to" (CP,... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...Milton undoes the trope in his allusion to the biblical verse: 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 it self, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. (CFW7:462-3)... | |
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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! 
