 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...view to counteract the noxious Humour of returning to Bondage, he says, " a king " must be adored as a demi-god, with a dissolute " and haughty court about him, of vast expence "• and luxury, Masks and Revels, to the debauch" ing our prime gentry, both male and female,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 636 pages
...perpetual servants and drudges to the public at their own cost and charges, neglect their own affairs, yet are no.t elevated above their brethren ; live...demigod, with a dissolute and haughty court about Urni, of vast expeace and luxury, masks and revels, to the dehauching of our prime gentry both male... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...view to counteract the noxious humour of returning to bondage, he says, " a king must be adored as a demigod, with a dissolute and haughty court about...expense and luxury, masks and revels, to the debauching our prime gentry, both male and female, not in their pastimes only, Sec." Pr. W. i. 590. I believe... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 402 pages
...all Christians, not without remarkable dis-- allowance, and the brand of gentilism upon kingship. • A king must be adored like a demi-god, with a dissolute and haughty court about him, of vast expence and luxury, masks and revels, to the debauching of our prime gentry, both male and female,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...view to counteract the noxious humour of returning to Bondage, he says, " a king must be adored as a demigod, with a dissolute and haughty court about him, of vast expence and luxury, maiks and revels, to the debauching our prime gentry, both male and female, not... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...perpetual servants and drudges [ to the public at their own cost and charges ; neglect their own affairs, yet are not elevated above their brethren ; live soberly...haughty- court about him, of vast expense and luxury, masks^and revels, to the debauching of our prime gentry, both male and female, not in their pastimes... | |
 | John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1832 - 584 pages
...above their brethren, live soberly in their families, walk the streets as other men, may be spoken 10, freely, familiarly, friendly, without adoration. Whereas...haughty court about him, of vast expense and luxury, on the public revenue." Milton's " Ready and Easy country in the world in a more flourishing and promising... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...counteract the noxious humour of returning to bondage, ho says, " A king must bo adored as a dcmi-god, with a dissolute and haughty court about him, of vast...expense and luxury, masks and revels, to the debauching our prime gentry, both male and female, not in their pastimes only," Ac., " Pr. W." i. 590. I believe... | |
 | John William Clayton - Great Britain - 1859 - 464 pages
...Milton, too, employed his nervous pen in combating the restitution of Monarchy. "A King," he says, - ' must be adored like a demi-god, with a dissolute and haughty Court about him of vast expence and luxury, masks and revels, to the debauching of our prime gentry, both male and female,... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...as other men, may be spoken to freely, familiarly, friendly, without adoration ; and a kingdom whose king must be adored like a demi-god, with a dissolute...vast expense and luxury, masks and revels, to the debauchery of the prime gentry." He recommended that the supreme power should be vested in a perpetual... | |
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Whereas a king must be adored like a demigod, with a dissolute and haughty- court about him, of vast expense and luxury, masks^and revels, to the debauching of our prime gentry, both male and female, not in their pastimes only, but in earnest, by the... 
