 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 516 pages
...assent . . to an inward prompt ing which now grew daily upon me, that by labor 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 Note 14, page 13, col. 1. 't was at... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...grew daily upon me, that, by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), I might, perhaps, leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let die."—Preface to the Second Book of Church Government. A noble purpose truly, and so fulfilled in... | |
 | 1875 - 860 pages
...not less to an inward prompting which now grows 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 words were published in 1641, when Milton was thirty-two, but there is no doubt that the project,... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...inward prompting, which VOL. in. H now grew daily upon me, that with labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with...written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let die. " These thoughts at once possessed me; and these other, that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...assent * * * to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense 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."* Great and varied talents, which would singly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with...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 pages
...assent ... 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...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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in thia life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after timea, as they should not willingly let it die.1' The poet then describes the high and mighty... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...he had ventured to indulge the hope that, by labour and study — " which I take,'' he nobly says, "to be my portion in this life " — joined with the strong propensity of nature, he " might perhaps leave something so written in after-times as they should not willingly let it die... | |
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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... 
