 | David Loewenstein - 1990 - 216 pages
...last year as a revolutionary prose writer: in The Readie and Easie Way, he had wondered where that "goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshaddow kings," had gone in his own time, noting that it had fallen into a disarray of factions... | |
 | Peter Beal, Jeremy Griffiths - 1993 - 332 pages
...strikingly similar: 'what will they at best say of us and of the whole English name, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder, mentioned by our Saviour,...Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshaddow kings . . ~; The foundation indeed they laid gallantly; but fell into a wors confusion,... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - 300 pages
...for greatness to spring from liberty had passed, as he imagined the reproaches of the rest of Europe: 'where is this goodly tower of a Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build, to overshaddow kings and be another Rome in the west?' Like Nedham, he thought that the Dutch had not... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 1996 - 230 pages
..."render [them] a scorn and derision" before all of Europe. What will they say of us, Milton asks, but "Where is this goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshaddow kings, and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly; but... | |
 | Amy Boesky - 1996 - 256 pages
...a scorn and derision to all our neighbours. And what will they at best say of us ... but scoffingly as of that foolish builder, mentioned by our Saviour, who began to build a 'lower, and was not able to finish it. Where is this goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which the English... | |
 | David Norbrook - 1999 - 532 pages
...if their projects fail, what will they say of us, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder mentiond by our Saviour, who began to build a Tower, and was...Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build, to overshaddow kings and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly, but fell... | |
 | Bruce McLeod - 1999 - 304 pages
...and corruption have blown the Commonwealth's chance at a revolutionary empire: foreigners will scoff, "where is this goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which...overshadow kings, and be another Rome in the west?" (v1.423). It seems clear that, via this invocation of the translatio imperil, Milton is making the... | |
 | American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia - 1914 - 420 pages
...back or rather creep back ... to their once abjured and detested thraldom of kingship". He asked, " Where is this goodly Tower of a Commonwealth, which...English boasted they would build to overshadow Kings?" Masson, Life of Milton, V, 647. n American Archives, fourth series, IV, 1544-1548. 14 Paine, Common... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...and of the whole English name, but scoffingiy, as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour,0 who began to build a tower and was not able to finish...another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantiy, but fell into a worse confusion, not of tongues, but of factions, than those at the... | |
 | Paul Raffield - 2004 - 320 pages
...the edifice was ineptly constructed and never completed: And what will they say of us, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour,...Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build, to overshaddow kings and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly, but fell... | |
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And what will they at best say of us, and of the whole English name, but scoffingly, as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour, who began to build a tower, and was not able to finish it ? Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which the... 
