 | Samuel Rogers - 1860 - 480 pages
...portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die. — Milton. Nor can his wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated in his lifetime and writing what few would... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die." His aspirations had even taken a certain determinate direction as regarded the work on which he was... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I hope to leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." And he promises to undertake something, he knows not yet what, that may be of use and honour to his... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...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...for three lives and downward, there ought no regard be sooner had than to God's glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. For which cause, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave snniething so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. I must say, therefore, that after I had for my first years, by the ceaseless diligence and care of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly...for three lives and downward, there ought no regard be sooner had, than to God's glory, by the honor and instruction of my country. For which cause, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1865 - 514 pages
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 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...be the portion of his life, he might be' the instrument of some good, and "perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die." His chief aim was, as he has himself said, to be "an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest... | |
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... grew daily upon me, that by labour and 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. 
