 | John Milton - Poets, English - 1872 - 250 pages
...overlooking, or betaken to of mine own choice in English, or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly by this latter, the style by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live.' * ' I had my time as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places... | |
 | John Milton - Poets, English - 1872 - 234 pages
...overlooking, or betaken to of mine own choice in English, or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly by this latter, the style by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live.' » ' I had my time as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places... | |
 | David Masson - Literature - 1874 - 404 pages
...by them that had the overlooking or betaken " to of mine own choice, in English or other tongue, " prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, the style,..."by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live." The meaning of which sentence is that Milton, before his three-and-twentieth year, knew himself to... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pages
...by them that had the overlooking or betaken " to of mine own choice, in English or other tongue, " prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, the style,..."by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live." The meaning of which sentence is that Milton, before his three-and-twentieth year, knew himself to... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...upon me by them that had the overlooking, or betaken to of my own choice, in English or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live."1 The interpretation of this seems to be, that already in 1632, on the faith of the acknowledged... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...own choice in English, or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly by this latter, the stvle, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live....latelier in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favored to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...teachers, it was found that whether aught was imposed upon me by them, or betaken to of my own choice, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely...much latelier, in the private academies of Italy, perceiving that some trifles which I . had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, met with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly the hater^lie style, by certain vital signs it'hiid. her and he could easily build up again with о few...at any time, as for the loss of the pigs. While h ¡u memory, composed at under twenty 63 or thereabout (for the manner is, that every one must give... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - 106 pages
...teachers, it was found that whether aught was imposed upon me by them, or betaken to of my own choice, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely...much latelier, in the private academies of Italy, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at about twenty, or thereabout, met with... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 168 pages
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... whether aught was imposed me by them that had the overlooking or betaken to of mine own choice, in English or other tongue, prosing or versing — but chiefly this latter, — the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live. 
