 | John Milton - 1896 - 218 pages
...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. . . . [He then speaks of the encomiums of certain, and goes on.] . . . I began thus far to assent both... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 204 pages
...upon 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." In 1637, just before he wrote Lycidas, he felt that God had instilled into him a vehement love of the... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1898 - 358 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 began thus far to assent to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 284 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 began thus far to assent to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour... | |
 | William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 pages
...teachers, it was found that whether aught was imposed upon me by them or betaken to be 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 thereabouts, met with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...teachers, it was found that whet%her aught was imposed 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...overlooking, or betaken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chieHy this latter, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live." — Reason of Church Government, book ii. 2 Ibid, book ii. 3 Letter to an unnamed correspondent. Facsimile... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 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... | |
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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. 
