 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...thralldom of kingship." What an "ingratefull backsliding" this was! "Where," Milton asks bitterly, "is this goodly tower of a Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build to overshadow king and be another Rome in the West?" He could not help but register the "treading back again with... | |
 | Walter S. H. Lim - 2006 - 314 pages
...at best say of us and of the whole English name, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder, mentiond by our Saviour, who began to build a tower, and was...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... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1928 - 312 pages
...Idealrepublik entwirft und des so schnell vergangenen Glanzes der Cromwell'schen Republik gedenkt: Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which...overshadow kings, and be another Rome in the west? So finden wir also in ihm wie in Cromwell eine Vereinigung zweier imperialistischer Ideen, einer religiösen,... | |
 | Michael Field - 1886 - 104 pages
...BAKER & SON. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. IT is now more than two hundred years ago since Milton asked, "Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which...they would build to overshadow kings, and be another B "ie in the West?" Believing that the foundations of such a holy state can only be laid by a nation... | |
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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... 
