 | Amy Boesky - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 256 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!" (148). The stones Milton addresses could be, if God would raise them once more,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 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, but with the Prophet's '0 earth, earth, earth' to tell the very soil itself what God hath determined of Coniah and... | |
 | Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone - Law - 2003 - 348 pages
...finding succor in the prospect of eventual political renewal: 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,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...not 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 and stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet,0 'O earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2005 - 529 pages
...apocalyptic moment of Blake's poem. 19 Milton, Works, 6:148: "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." 20... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1883 - 592 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, ยป Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
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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! 
