 | Eliza Meteyard - 1862 - 314 pages
...which so eminently characterises all true greatness, and all true genius, "When God commands to take a trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it...will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal." t The grand committee of religion appointed by the Parliament, had now sat some months; Laud and several... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...be the messenger of gladness and content. But when God commands him to put the trumpet to his lips, and blow a dolorous or a jarring bla,st, it lies not...will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." In another place he expresses his regret at having to abandon for a time his poetical and historical... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. If he shall think... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 pages
...for such talents and scholarship as he possessed, in other walks less retired and peaceful ; and, " when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what ho shall say, or what he shall conceal." And, he did take the trumpet, and, in defence of the people... | |
 | 1952 - 708 pages
...of such polemics out of your deepest religious and moral convictions, you proudly pointed out that "when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a...will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." TO ALL OF which I hasten to add that all your pamphlets are brightly illuminated from within by your... | |
 | Godfrey Davies - 1959 - 494 pages
...himself wrote, 'But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it ties not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal.' As the civil war went on, he became more and more in favour of extremes. He was virtually the first... | |
 | A. O. J. Cockshut - 1966 - 276 pages
...man it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands;*** but when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say and what he shall conceal.' l Thus, then, of the three most approved antagonists to the spirit of barter,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...regret that the advancement of knowledge should require controversy, which was not really his task. "But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." He explains that his "sharp but saving words" are, unfortunately, necessary. "I should not," he goes... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pages
...35 [1938]: 263). Milton's concept of the active life is revealed in his own words and actions: "But when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in mans will what he shall say or what he shall conceal" (RCG 3:231). His response to that command, says... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...it begins, because Milton has just made the far larger claim that God Himself has "command[ed him] to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast." His own will, consequently, dissolves into a higher authority. Indeed, so many of the "high" criteria... | |
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But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. 
