 | John Milton - 1894 - 360 pages
...would dance. Yet for a dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild ; perhaps For joy of offered peace. But I suppose If our proposals once again were...terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force, urged home, 622 Such as we might perceive amused them all, And stumbled many. Who receives them right... | |
 | Joseph Knight - Actors - 1894 - 366 pages
...the language of Milton, not, it is hoped, too irreverently used, the defenders of order might say, " The terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents and full of force, urged home, Such as we might perceive amused them all And stumbled many." The victory was complete... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 654 pages
...We should compel them to a quick result.' " To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood : — 620 ' Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of foree urged home, Such as we might pereeive amused them all, And stumbled many. Who receives them right... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 406 pages
...would dance, yet for a dance they seemed Somewhat extravagant and wild, perhaps For joy of offered peace ; but I suppose If our proposals once again...terms of 'weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urged home, Such as we might perceive amused them all, And stumbled many ; who receives them right,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1898 - 172 pages
...understands me. Johnson notes that Milton has used the same quibble in PL vi. 625 : "To whom thus Belia], in like gamesome mood: Leader, the terms we sent were...terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force urg'd home ; Such as we might perceive amus'd them all, And stumbled many: who receives them right... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 314 pages
...should compel them to a quick Result, January To whom thus Belial in like gamesome Moode, 19, 1712. Leader, the Terms we sent, were Terms of Weight, Of hard Contents, and full of Force urg'd home, Such as we might perceive amus'd them all, And stumbled many; who receives them right,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1898 - 334 pages
...fol. Alluding to their victory, due to the invention of guns and gunpowder, Satan says: Again : '' The terms we sent were terms of weight Of hard contents and full of force urged home Such as we might perceive amused them all And stumbled many," etc. Cf. Faerie Queene, IV.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...open front And breast (what could we more?) propounded terms Of composition," etc. and again : — " The terms we sent were terms of weight Of hard contents and full of force urged home Such as we might perceive amused them all And stumbled many," etc. 1. 413. When her war-song,... | |
 | John Milton - 1900 - 610 pages
...strange vagaries fell, As they would dance, yet for a dance they seemd Somwhat extravagant and wilde, perhaps For joy of offerd peace : but I suppose If...them to a quick result. To whom thus Belial in like gamesom mood. 620 Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force... | |
 | John Milton - 1900 - 582 pages
...strange vagaries fell, As they would dance, yet for a dance they seemd Somwhat extravagant and wilde, perhaps For joy of offerd peace : but I suppose If...them to a quick result. To whom thus Belial in like gamesom mood. 620 Leader, the terms we sent were terms of weight, Of hard contents, and full of force... | |
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For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result. 
