 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 pages
...then of what avail in his strict meditation and constant straining after lofty ideals, 'that he may leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die?' For throughout his life Milton did not feel the exertion of his energies to be its own reward. He desired... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 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. — Milton. We owe the great writers of the golden age of our literature to that fervid awakening of... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 636 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." That this thought had been stirring in him even while he was in Italy, and that he had then, moreover,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases,... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - Fiction - 1984 - 132 pages
...Cambridge University a manuscript in which the young Milton proposes various subjects for a long poem. "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die," he declared. He listed some ten or fifteen subjects, not knowing that one of them would prove prophetic:... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. (P. 54) Thus inspired, Milton extended the range of his activities spectacularly. For the first time... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...far-off view, we can realize that the Commonplace Book yields evidence of the preparation of a Milton to 'leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.' "19 For the Commonplace Book is a collection of topoi or topics to be employed as proofs in Milton's... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 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.'" Although the Hammersmith and Horton days had seen him confident of poetical ability, the Italian experience... | |
 | William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...life. He wrote, however, in one of his prose works: (302) "[I hope] that by labour and. ..study. ..I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." From John Suckling (born 1609), we have a statement on the enduring life not of his poems but of the... | |
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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. 
