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" 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... "
Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty ... - Page 303
by Alexander Graydon - 1811 - 378 pages
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Pages from a Journal: With Other Papers

William Hale White - 1910 - 400 pages
...worth anything. " What is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmixt? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous...vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? " (PR iii. 47-5I-) To the Jesus of the New Testament this answer is, in a measure, inappropriate....
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Studies in Milton

Sten Bodvar Liljegren - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 220 pages
...feat of saving a few valuable souls, but mankind at large, the "miscellaneous rabble", he despises. "what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise, They praise and they admire they know not what; And know not...
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Political Organization of the Plains Indians: With Special ..., Volumes 24-25

Maurice Greer Smith - Indians of North America - 1925 - 916 pages
...orthodoxy to hear their failings remorselessly set forth in the dispassionate words of the Messiah: " A herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol...they admire they know not what, And know not whom, hut as one leads the other; 11 Paradise Lost V, 791. 12 Paradise Lost VI, 178-180. 11 Samson, 674-C77....
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The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 1

John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 442 pages
...thy argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if always praise unmixt ? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A 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,...
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Paradise Regained

John Milton - Bible - 1925 - 102 pages
...thy argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The peoples praise, if always praise unmixt? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 50 Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise, They praise and they admire they know not...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...thy argument. For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The peoples praise, if always praise unmixt? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extoll 50 Things vulgar, and well weighd, scarce worth the praise; They praise and they admire they...
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...effort fail: For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The peoples praise, if always praise unmixt? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, & well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise, They praise and they admire they know not what; And know not...
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"Such Prompt Eloquence": Language as Agency and Character in Milton's Epics

Leonard Mustazza - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 188 pages
...praise itself: For what is glory but the blaze of fame, The people's praise, if only praise unmix't? And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous...vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? (3.47-51) And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon thir tongues and be thir talk, Of whom...
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Milton and the Drama of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm, and the ...

David Loewenstein - History - 1990 - 216 pages
...593; for Turkish despots, see in, 115, 448, 453, 574, 575; for the Byzantine Comnenus, see in, 361. 61 "And what the people but a herd confus'd, / A miscellaneous rabble, who extol / Things vulgar . . . ? / They praise and they admire they know not what" (n1.49-51). 63 See the stage direction following...
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Religion and Culture in Renaissance England

Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...glory as nothing but "fame, / The people's praise," which is worthless because the common people are a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and well weigh 'd, scarse worth the praise. As Liljegren notes, it is "difficult to imagine" the figure who...
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