 | Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 pages
...and not less to an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with...to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die93." Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pages
.... . . to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. MILTON. P. 81, 1. 17. '(teas at matin-time Love... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...he, ' I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,' he might ' leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.' It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great ahilities, a lofty and... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 442 pages
....daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. " The thing which I had to say, and those intentions which have liv'd within me ever since I could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | William Godwin - 1823 - 444 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimcs, as they should not willingly let it die. " The thing which I had to say, and those intentions... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...of Job, which was, as we have seen, present to his thoughts when he anticipated the compassing of " something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." He had traced the wanderings of the majestic Nile of Epic song, and traversed every shore sublimely... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
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... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, 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... 
