...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of rimorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." A fine piece of spread-eagle prose. The facts, though, were incontrovertible whatever the interpretations...

...the balance? Are the gifts which you reject devoid even of pecuniary value? What should ye do, thenf Should ye suppress all this flowery crop of knowledge...new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this cityf Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again,...

...49 BJM fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds. . .flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. Areopagitica 1644 Further reading Two detailed books on Milton's pamphleteering on the subject of church...

...her as an Eagle muing her mighty youth . . . while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds ... in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms." 6 January 1. On 12 June 1786 George Robert Fitzgerald was executed for the murder of Patrick McDonald....

...cf. 490, 557). Milton's display of rhetorical copia at once celebrates and exemplifies the "flowry crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this City" (558). The truth emerges in dialogue, not simply in individual inspiration; some forms of power can...

...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms" (II, 558). A rejection of the past is suggested both by the participle "mewing" and by those participles...

...how you prohibit any truth to be sold in your markets.114 For Milton and other revolutionaries, the "flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing up daily in this City" was a function of increasing diversity and discursive exchange, of a productive...

...noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amaz'd at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sect and schisms. "J3 Milton is not afraid of the inevitable schisms. "When God shakes a Kingdom with...

...at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,...gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms. The prose reference is clearly rhetorical. It occurs in a work written with a definite audience in...

...Parliament, who are now recognisable as the "timorous and flocking birds . . . that love the twilight . . . and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms."13 This was far more than literary polish. It was unembarrassed utopianism, looking to the...