...if their projects fail, what will they say of us, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder mentiond by our Saviour, who began to build a Tower, and was...Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build, to overshaddow kings and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly, but fell...

...and corruption have blown the Commonwealth's chance at a revolutionary empire: foreigners will scoff, "where is this goodly tower of a Commonwealth, which...overshadow kings, and be another Rome in the west?" (v1.423). It seems clear that, via this invocation of the translatio imperil, Milton is making the...

...back or rather creep back ... to their once abjured and detested thraldom of kingship". He asked, " Where is this goodly Tower of a Commonwealth, which...English boasted they would build to overshadow Kings?" Masson, Life of Milton, V, 647. n American Archives, fourth series, IV, 1544-1548. 14 Paine, Common...

...and of the whole English name, but scoffingiy, as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour,0 who began to build a tower and was not able to finish...Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantiy, but fell into a worse confusion, not of tongues, but of factions, than those at the tower...

...never completed: And what will they say of us, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour, who began to build a Tower, and was...Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build, to overshaddow kings and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly, but fell...

...thralldom of kingship." What an "ingratefull backsliding" this was! "Where," Milton asks bitterly, "is this goodly tower of a Common-wealth which the English boasted they would build to overshadow king and be another Rome in the West?" He could not help but register the "treading back again with...

...at best say of us and of the whole English name, but scoffingly as of that foolish builder, mentiond by our Saviour, who began to build a tower, and was...Commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshaddow kings, and be another Rome in the west? The foundation indeed they laid gallantly; but...

...Idealrepublik entwirft und des so schnell vergangenen Glanzes der Cromwell'schen Republik gedenkt: Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which...overshadow kings, and be another Rome in the west? So finden wir also in ihm wie in Cromwell eine Vereinigung zweier imperialistischer Ideen, einer religiösen,...

...BAKER & SON. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. IT is now more than two hundred years ago since Milton asked, "Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which...they would build to overshadow kings, and be another B "ie in the West?" Believing that the foundations of such a holy state can only be laid by a nation...