Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 941840Full view - About this book
| 1805 - 574 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, m wmter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first arises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till attention be weary,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to... | |
| Basil Montagu - Learning and scholarship - 1820 - 200 pages
...be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up, and stirring; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rises, or not much tardier, to read... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakes men to labour or to devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...Smectymnuus, " that he was up and stirring, in winter ' often ere the sound of any bell ' awake men to labour, or to ' devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird...rouses, ' or not much tardier, to read ' good authors, &c :" and few minds, I believe, but such as are innocent and unstained with guilty pleasures have any... | |
| Christian life - 1871 - 348 pages
...and great men need scarcely be adduced. John Milton writes of himself that he was at his studies " in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...truth of what he says of himself in his Apology for Smectymnuus, " that he wa's ' up and stirring, in winter ' often ere the sound of any bell ' awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...should be, at home, not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read... | |
| Alfred Cecil Buckland - Conduct of life - 1825 - 398 pages
...irregular feast, but up, and stirring; in winter, often ere the sound of any bs\\ awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that...read good authors, or cause them to be read ; till attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labours, preserving... | |
| John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read... | |
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