 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...Decitrsor Diocletian. And perhaps it was with the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phantasm bred by the fever which had then seized him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 284 pages
...was the same politick drift that the Divell whipt St Jerom in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; 1 or else it was a fantasm bred by the feaver which had then seis'd him. For had an Angel bin his discipliner, unlesse it were for dwelling too much upon Ciceronianisms,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...of Decius or Dioclesian. And perhaps it was the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phantasm bred by the fever which had then seis'd8* him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1918 - 180 pages
...Decius or Diocletian. And perhaps it was with the same politic drift that the devil whipped St Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero ; or else it was a phantasm, bred by the fever which had then seized him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1927 - 208 pages
...Decius or Diocletian. And perhaps it was with the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phantasm, bred by the fever which had then seized him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...of Decius or Dioclesian. And perhaps it was the same politic drift that the devil whipped St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a phantasm bred by the fever which had then seis'd3* him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...dream: "perhaps it was the same politic drift [as Emperor Julian's] that the Devil whipt St. Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero; or else it was a fantasm bred by the fever which had then seized him" (II, 509-10). Milton's dismissal is partially justified. Jerome's... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Decius or Diocletian.0 And perhaps it was the same politic drift that the devil whipped St Jerome0 in a lenten dream for reading Cicero; or else it was a phantasm bred by the fever which had then seized him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
 | John Milton - 1942 - 180 pages
...Decius or Diocletian. And perhaps it was with the same politic drift that the devil whipped St Jerome in a lenten dream, for reading Cicero ; or else it was a phantasm, bred by the fever which had then seized him. For had an angel been his discipliner, unless... | |
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Ciceronianisms, and had chastised the reading, not the vanity, it had been plainly partial, first, to correct him for grave Cicero, and not for... 
