... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. Lives of Milton and Addison - Σελίδα 6των Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 209 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 σελίδες
...I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 σελίδες
...I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. — MILTON. Nor can his Wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated in his life-time and writing what few would... | |
| Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 σελίδες
...it was my youthful ambition " to be for ever known," and part whereof I dare believe has been " to written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die," it appeared proper that this poem through which the author had been first made known to the public, two-and-forty... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 σελίδες
...life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to aftertimee, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears...he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lot'tv and steady confidence in himself, perhaps not without some contempt of others ; for scarcely... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1846 - 606 σελίδες
...prompting that by labour and intense study, joined with the strong propensity of nature, he might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die.' He devoted himself very seriously to study, and at an age when other men are just girding themselves... | |
| 1846 - 614 σελίδες
...prompting that by labour and intense study, joined with the strong propensity of nature, he might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die.' He devoted himself very seriously to study, and at an age when other men are just girding themselves... | |
| Robert Wharton Landis - 1846 - 398 σελίδες
...(which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined by the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let die."* Surely the self-confidence in these two passages is the same; only that Milton employs the word... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 σελίδες
...confirmed him in the hope, that, ' by labour and intense study, which,' says he, ' I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,'...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.' From Florence he went to Sienna, and from Sienna to Rome, where he was again received with kindness... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 σελίδες
...I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 σελίδες
...I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,... | |
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