 | Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner, Maurizio Viroli - 1990 - 336 pàgines
...soil in a manner outlandish . . . For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must...examples of best ages: we shall else miscarry still, (v. 449-51) Here was a recurrent anxiety to Milton, who as early as 1641 warned parliament that 'in... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pàgines
...or bad success alike unteachable. For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must...We shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempt of any great enterprise. [324-5] This was the lesson of British history as he understood it.... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1996 - 314 pàgines
...of mankind'.37 For, explained Milton, 'the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding and many civil virtues be . . . from foreign writings and examples of best ages; we shall else miscarry'.38 The result, if it... | |
 | Sean Kelsey - 1997 - 272 pàgines
...republican experience. Long before Milton would have considered himself a republican, he believed that 'as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must...from foreign writings and examples of best ages'." After his elevation to the heights of state propagandist for the republican regime he proudly declared... | |
 | Sigrid Bauschinger - 1998 - 238 pàgines
...of America and contribute to the country's emerging national literature. Milton's lines run thus: As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must...be imported into our minds from foreign writings; — we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts of any great enterprise.37 Margaret... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 404 pàgines
...commonwealth and the need for such a language to create it. "Many civil virtues," he maintained, must "be imported into our minds from foreign writings and examples of best ages, we shall else miscarry."4"' Nedham made some effort to translate those foreign examples into English idioms before... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 580 pàgines
...Margaret Fuller printed as the epigraph to her translation of Eckerman's Conversations with Goethe: "As wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must...be imported into our minds from foreign writings." Americans were enthusiastic importers of poems, but their national history, short as it was, altered... | |
 | David Norbrook - 1999 - 532 pàgines
...alike unteachable. For the sunn, which wee want ripens witts as well as fruits; and as wine and oyle are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding and many civil vertues bee imported into our minds from forren writings & examples of best ages: wee shall else miscarry... | |
 | Jonathan Scott - 2000 - 564 pàgines
...freedom of mankind'.39 For, said Milton, 'the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding and many civil 37 Harrington, Oceana, in Political Works, pp. 229, 341; see Jonathan Scott, 'The Rapture of Motion:... | |
 | Kevin Sharpe - 2000 - 498 pàgines
...commonwealth and the need for such a language to create it. 'Many civil virtues', he maintained, must 'be imported into our minds from foreign writings and examples of best ages, we shall else miscarry'.45 Nedham made some effort to translate those foreign examples into English idioms before... | |
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For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits ; and as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages : we shall... 
