 | John Milton - 1892 - 414 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. " I applied myself to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Thomas Edgar Pemberton - Actors - 1893 - 350 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.' To very few amongst modern authors who struggled painfully to succeed, and who, after years... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 96 pages
...autobiographical, he utters words prophetic of what was to be his life's crowning work, expressing the hope that he "might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." In 1643 Milton, after a brief courtship, married Mary Powell, daughter of a Royalist justice... | |
 | Anthologies - 1891 - 396 pages
...understand it ; but then what Milton describes as " labour and intent study," will, in the present case, "leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let die." We may mention that the " Nouvel Armorial du Bibliophile " is published by M. Emile Rondeau, 35, Passage... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...autobiographical, he utters words prophetic of what was to be his life's crowning work, expressing the hope that he "might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." In 1 643 Milton, after a brief courtship, married Mary Powell, daughter of a Royalist justice... | |
 | John Milton - Education - 1895 - 104 pages
...portion in this life), 1 " Reason of Church Government." 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." In one of his Latin pamphlets 1 he gives us some picture of his life at Horton. The following... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 410 pages
...prompting, . . that, by labour and intense study, . . joined with the strong propensity of nature, he might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die;'* though in the subsequent Apology for Smeclymnmis ho postpones the execution of Lis project... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 408 pages
...prompting, . . that, by labour and intense study, . . joined with the strong propensity of nature, he might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die;' * though in the subsequent Apology far Smcctt1mnmis he postpones the execution of Lis project... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 302 pages
...intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, / might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. ... I applied myself to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native... | |
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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... 
