| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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