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" Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood. "
Essays on Archaeological Subjects, and on Various Questions Connected with ... - Page 270
by Thomas Wright - 1861
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Unfolding Drama of Redemption (Scroggie), Volume 1

William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 pages
...traditions', to priests and postures, and much besides. 'They bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, But still revolt when truth would set them free; Licence...For who loves that, must first be wise and good.' To all such Paul preaches a gospel of freedom. 'Free from the law, oh, happy condition! Jesus hath...
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פרקי אבות

Behrman House - 1968 - 134 pages
...free. He alone is truly free who knows and obeys the laws of God. This is echoed in Milton's lines : " Licence they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that, must first be wise and good." Mattanah . . . Nachaliel . . . Bamoth. As words these place-names mean " gift, heritage of God, heights...
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Milton: The life

William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...twin-born progeny, Which after held the sun and moon in fee. But this is got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood And still...Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good : But from that mark how far they rove we see For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood. The time...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs. 7676 Sonnet 12 'I did but prompt the age' ributes to building the edifice of the world. 9818 Night, when words fade and things come 7677 Sonnet 16 'When I consider how my light is spent' When I consider how my light is spent, E're...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...(17 l ) I. I 7^S 27 Time the subtle thief of youth. .S'omií'í 7 'How soon b;Uh time' ( l(i4SI 28 Licence they mean when they cry liberty; For who loves that, must lirst be wise and good. Sonnel 1 2 Ч did but prompt the u^e' ( i (17 i I 29 When 1 consider how my...
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Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...despotism of the many — but especially in the present day against the sycophants of the populace. License they mean, when they cry liberty ! For who loves that, must first be wise and good. ESSAY XL Nemo vero fallatur, quasi minorasint animorum contagiaqwmcorporum Major a, sunt ; gravius...
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George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton

Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 pages
...points of doctrine and scripture. Furthermore, Eliot has Rufus echo grand Miltonic language — "License they mean when they cry liberty; / For who loves that, must first be wise and good" (Sonnet 12, 11-12) — when chastising Felix: "You yourself are a lover of freedom, and a bold rebel...
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The Major Works

John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...progeny Which after held the sun and moon in fee.0 But this is got by casting pearl to hogs;0 That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free.0 Licence they mean when they cry liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good; But...
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Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor

Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...radical sects, perhaps most angrily so when he wrote in Sonnet XIL against those That bawle for fredom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free. License they mean when they cry libertie. 18. "Seraphic, seraphical ... allusively applied in the sense...
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Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us

Jason A. Merchey - 2005 - 321 pages
...freedom to perform acts he has a penchant for. John Milton informs us on this aspect of liberty: "License they mean when they cry 'Liberty,' for who loves that must first be wise and good." \ CHAPTER NINE KINDNESS, MAGNANIMITY, & ALTRUISM This chapter is one of the loftiest and worthiest...
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