 Things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other: And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues and be their talk, Of whom to...  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 182by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Louise Caroline Tuthill, Mrs. Louisa C. Cuthill - 1853 - 312 pages
...this intangible phantom ! this terrifying consideration ! What will people say ? ' They praise and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom,...as one leads the other ; And what delight, to be by such extolled. To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...miscellaneous rabble who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom,...as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 pages
...enlisted under the banners of liberty, from no principles, or with bad ones : whether they be those, Avho admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads to the other'; — or whether those, Whose end is private hate, not help to freedom, Adverse and turbulent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 pages
...enlisted under the banners of liberty, from no principles, or with bad ones : whether they be ;hose, who admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads to the other ; — or whether those, Whose end is private hate, not help to freedom, Adverse and turbulent... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise?8 " They praise, and they admire, they know not whatv " And know not whom, but as one leads the other; " And what delight to be by such extolled, " To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, 65 " Of whom to be dispraised were... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 568 pages
...enlisted under the banners of liberty, from no principles, or with bad ones : whether they be those, who admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads to the other ;— or whether those, Whose end is private hate, not help to freedom, Adverse and turbulent... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 pages
...miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom,...as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1908 - 320 pages
...great way: — They extol Things vulgar, and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise. They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom,...as one leads the other. And what delight to be by such extolled, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...miscellaneous rabble, who extol thincs vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? they praise and Milton. The multitude which is not brought to act as unity, is confusion. That unity which has not... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...miscellaneous rabble, who extol things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? they praise and they admire they know not what, and know not whom, but as one leads the other. — Millón. The multitude which is not brought to act as unity, is confusion. That unity which has... | |
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