 ... 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 the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should...  The Southern Review - Page 3621829Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...home ; and not lese to an inward prompting, which now grew daily »pon rae, that by labour and intent ture ? Can knowledge have no hound, but must advance So fa to the itrong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave nmething so written, to after times, as they... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to...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... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...and how much more sublime was Milton's conception of the duties of the Muse. " By labor and intent 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 as they... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1849 - 872 pages
...public taste. He wrote from au "inward prompting which," says he, "grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study, (which I take to be my portion...written, to after times, 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 buy... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...public taste. He wrote from an "inward prompting which," says he, "grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study, (which I take to be my portion...written, to after times, 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... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...public taste. He wrote from an "inward prompting which," says he, "grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study, (which I take to be my portion...written, to after times, 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...I began thus far to assent * * * to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor uccessful scholar, and nothing more. What Pope has most Ufe,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...public taste. He wrote from an "inward prompting which," says he, "grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study, (which I take to be my portion...written, to after times, 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 buy... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...inward prompting, whieh now grew daily ' upon me, that with labour and intense study (whieh I take to.be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. "These thoughts at onee possessed me; and these... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to he my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity...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... | |
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