 | 1875 - 582 pages
...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." These words were published in 1641, when Milton was thirty-two, but there is no donbt that the project,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...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, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me ; and these other, that if 1 were certain to write as men buy leases,... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I hope to leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." And he promises to undertake something, he knows not yet what, that may be of use and honour to his... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1860 - 418 pages
...which it was my youthful ambition " to be for ever known," and part whereof I dare believe has been " so written to after-times 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... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other : that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave snniething so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. I must say, therefore, that after I had for my first years, by the ceaseless diligence and care of... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...study, (which 1 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,... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...labor," which he took to be the portion of his life, he might be' the instrument of some good, and "perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die." His chief aim was, as he has himself said, to be "an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if 7 were certain to write as men buy Leases,... | |
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... 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. 
