 | 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... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 1999 - 332 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Richard J. DuRocher - 2001 - 232 pages
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 | Anne-Julia Zwierlein - 2001 - 520 pages
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 | David Gay - 2002 - 232 pages
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 | 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... 
