 Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...  Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Romance - Seite 40von Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 Seiten
...'A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. ... Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a.strong man after sleep... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 Seiten
...as a nation not slow and dull but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. The importance of the Stuart court to England's cultural life in the early century is hard to overstate.... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. ... Why else was this Nation chos'n before any other, that out of her as out of Sion should be proclam'd... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 Seiten
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 Seiten
...to be "of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Milton traced censorship back to Roman despots and popes and represented the licensing procedure as... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 Seiten
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to ... this Nation chos'n before any other . . . [When] God is decreeing to begin some new and great period... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 Seiten
...a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle social philosopher. Democracy in America, vol. 1 , ch. 17(1 835). 31 It w JOHN MILTON (1 608-74). English poet. Areopagilica: a Speech for the liberty of Unlicensed Priming... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 Seiten
..."a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest human capacity can soar to" (II, 551). This is praise indeed. However, immediately following are testimonies... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 Seiten
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy in discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to."3' Milton's voice expressed the cultural confidence of the society that brought forth Shakespeare... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 Seiten
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to"; superior in its natural wits "before the labour'd studies of the French."17 All this no longer has... | |
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