 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...  Memoir of the Life of Richard Winter Hamilton - Стр. 469авторы: William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - Страниц: 498Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1881 - Страниц: 856
...but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, arid not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." ADDRESS OP HON. JAMES A. GARFIELD. I>* the presence of these fathers of science who have honored this... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - Страниц: 308
...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 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 - Страниц: 646
...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 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 - Страниц: 388
...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 - Страниц: 192
...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 - Страниц: 246
...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 - Страниц: 600
...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 - Страниц: 1214
...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 that human capacity can soar to. JOHN MILTON (1 608-74). English poet. Areopagilica: a Speech for the liberty of Unlicensed Priming... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - Страниц: 160
...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 that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest Sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1996 - Страниц: 280
...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... | |
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