 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...greatness of their young admirers ? P. 89, 1. 20. And MILTON'S self I began thus far to assent ... to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me,...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 aftertimes,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...of the Alps ;—I began thus to assent both to them, and divers of my friends at home, and not less 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), I might, perhaps, leave something so written... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 516 pages
...I began thus far to 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 the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something, so written, to after... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...mankind. "I began thus far to assent both to them and to dirers of my friends at home. and not less to an Inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour mod intense stndy, f which I take to be my ponion In this life.l joined with the strong propensity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...the Alps, I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not lew my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run,...Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd wel mv portion in this life), joined to the •tri'ij;: propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 860 pages
...to them, and divers of my friends here at home, and 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 the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...which men should not willingly let die, he knew what it would cost him. It was to be " by labor atid intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life." When Mr. Dickens wrote one of his Christmas Books, he shut himself up for six weeks to do it ; he "put... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...somewhat." Well might he have added in the touching words of Milton, " I began thus far to 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 the strong propensity... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...mankind. " 1 bepan thim far to assent both to them and to divrn ' of my friends at home, and not lese lo an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour end i intense study, fwhich 1 take to be my porliun ш Ihn Пfe,) joined with the strong propensity... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...Alps, I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon...study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times,... | |
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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... 
