 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...Cause:" if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I Avere sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants arc deaf to.... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...Cause:" if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones; and had none to cry to but, with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth!" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 402 pages
...seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, tho' I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and...stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, 0 earth, earth, earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...and when it had been so often pointed out. ' Thus much I should perhaps have said,' he concludes, ' though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself, what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to :... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...' if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to;... | |
 | Southern States - 1829 - 552 pages
...Cause;' if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, 1 hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should, perhaps, have said, though I were...stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - Authors, English - 1833 - 316 pages
...: if it seem strange to any, it will not seem more strange, I hope than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, O Earth, Earth, Earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...cause: if it seem strange to anv, it will not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders: thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...strange to any, it will not seem more strange I hope, than convincing, to backsliders. This much I should have said, though I were sure I should have spoken...stones ; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, O earth, earth, earth ! to tell the very soil itself what 'its perverse inhabitants are deaf to ; nay,... | |
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Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! 
