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" ... 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 New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal - Page 51
1835
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Horace: Odes and Epodes

Horace - Latin language - 1898 - 538 pages
...rather than quid. Cf. Cat. 1. 10, quod, O patrana virgo, plus uno maneat perenne saeclo. Vivat : ' Something so written -to after times as they should not willingly let it die.' Cf. Epist. 1. 19. 2, vivere carmina. 3. age dic : cf. die age, 3. 4. 1 ; 2. 11. 22, — Latinum...
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Odes and Epodes

Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...rather than quid. Cf. Cat. 1. 10, quod, O patrana virgo, plus uno maneat perenne saeclo. Vivat : ' Something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.' Cf. Epist. 1. 19. 2, vivere carmina. 3. age dic : of. die age, 3. 4. 1 ; 2. 11. 22. — Latinum...
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English Men of Letters: Milton, by Mark Pattison, 1900; Goldsmith, by ...

1900 - 570 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." What the ultimate form of his poetic utterance shall be, he is in no hurry to decide. He will...
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Academy and Literature, Volume 58

Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - Literature - 1900 - 578 pages
...study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joiued with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. Fiction. The Enchanter. By UL Silberrad. (Macmillan & Co. 6s.) THERE is something unusual and...
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Essays on Poetry

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 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. . . . The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could...
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Milton

Mark Pattison - Poets, English - 1901 - 232 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." What the ultimate form of his poetic utterance shall be, he is in no hurry to decide. He will...
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Milton's Lycidas

John Milton - 1902 - 124 pages
...accomplishment of greatest things". Like Dante, he had the inward prompting that "by labour and intent study he might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die ". His first essay in English verse was a poem on the death of an infant niece, written during...
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University Record, Volume 6

University of Chicago - 1902 - 516 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 ? " The influence of universities upon historical writing is beneficent in proportion as universities...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

Quotations - 1903 - 1186 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. ibid. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies....
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For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told

Charles Warren Stoddard - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 292 pages
...world of experiences to fall back on, he might do something worth while, and, to quote the blind bard, 'perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.' As it was his life was wasted and he was accomplishing nothing." So Miss Juno, Violet and...
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