 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...patience, should thus lie at the mercy of a coy, flirting style, to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. To me it seemed an indignity, that whom his whole wisdom could not move from their place, them his... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...patience, should thus lie at the mercy of a coyflirting style; to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. To me it seemed an indignity, that whom his whole wisdom could not move from their place, them his... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 pages
...period, with which Milton taunted liiir in their controversy about Episcopacy : — " To be jjirdei by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate." This is very differ enl from Taylor'i redundant flow. the firm, we trust, inseparable reunion of religion... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...patience, should thus lie at the mercy of a coy flirting style ; to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. To me it seemed an indignity, that whom his whole wisdom could not move from their place, them his... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...patience, should lie thus at the mercy of a coyflurting stile; to be girded with frumpt and curtail gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. Milton. An Apology for Smcctymnuut. Prote lYorkt, vol. ip 105. FRUSH. As the " Fr. froisser ; to crush,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...patience, should thus lie at the mercy of a coy flirting style ; to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. To me it seemed an indignity, that whom his whole wisdom could not move from their place, them his... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...;" as if it lay at the mercy of " a coy flirting style, to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate." The triumph of wit is not necessarily the triumph of truth. The parodies of the Homeric style by Swift,... | |
 | Theology - 1852 - 520 pages
...patience, should thus lie at the mercy of a coy flirting style ; to be girded with frumps and curtal gibes, by one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate."— "Apol. for Smec. :" cyf. iii., tudal. 99. Ymddengys fod y Presbyteriaid, ar ol sefydliad y werin-ly... | |
 | David Laing - 1870 - 64 pages
...should thus lie at the mercy of a coy, flirting stile ; to be girded with frumps and curtail gibes, by one who makes sentences by the Statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. To me it seem'd an indignity, that whom his whole wisdome could not move from their place, them his... | |
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... one who makes sentences by the statute, as if all above three inches long were confiscate. 
