 ... 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...  Poetical Works: Biography of Milton - Page 95by John Milton - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...says 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 it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 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 it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities," a lofty and... | |
 | Charles Symmons - Fore-edge paintings - 1822 - 526 pages
...friends at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life),...to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die93." Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...far to assent . . . to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life)...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. MILTON. P. 81, 1. 17. '(teas at matin-time Love... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 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 it die.' It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great ahilities, a lofty and... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 442 pages
....daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. " The thing which I had to say, and those intentions which have liv'd within me ever since I could... | |
 | William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimcs, as they should not willingly let it die. " The thing which I had to say, and those intentions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 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 it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...of Job, which was, as we have seen, present to his thoughts when he anticipated the compassing of " something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." He had traced the wanderings of the majestic Nile of Epic song, and traversed every shore sublimely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
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