 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...always praise unmix'd ? And what the people but a herd confu&'d, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 50 Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the...admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but ai one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extolPd, To live upon their tongues and be their... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 244 pages
...confns'd, A miscellaneons rabble, who extol 50 Tilings vnlgar; and well weigh'd, scarce worth the pmise ? They praise, and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, bnt as one leads the other; And what delight to he by snch extoll'd, To live npon their tongnes, and... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmix'd ? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol [praise ? Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the They praise and' they admire, they- know... | |
 | Alexander Graydon, John Galt - Pennsylvania - 1822 - 454 pages
...Milton, against whom the great Samuel Johnson is supposed to be even more than usually intolerant. He certainly could not have been aware, nor Mr Boswell...a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol * It may be safely averred, that a majority of our best Whigs of 1776 were not republicans by predilection... | |
 | John Galt - Scotland - 1822 - 320 pages
...of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmixed ? And what the people, but a herd confused, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and...weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admirfe, they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other j . And what delight to... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - Great Britain - 1823 - 168 pages
...this change. In the work which he most esteemed, " Paradise Regained," he thus expresses himself;] " And what the people, but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...N.ivila sed tristis nunc hos, nunc accipit illoe, AM alius longe summolos arcet arena. Jortin. 49. And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, &c.] These lines are certainly no proof of a democratic disposition in our author. Dunster. 56. Of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...si quis ipsum laudet, ridet laudantem ipse secnm; et The people's praise, if always praise unmix'd? And what the people but a herd conf'us'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 60 Things vulgar, and well weigh'cl, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmix'd ? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous...vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? 5t They praise, and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other;... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmix'd ? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble who extol so Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? basis, the approbation of the God of... | |
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Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other : And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to... 
