 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...he, ' I take to be my portion tn this ; life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,' he might ' leave something so written to after-. ' times, as they should not willingly let n die.' il appears in all his writmgs, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...daily upon" him, " 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." The taste of the age, the example of his father, his own inclination, and the boldness of... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1819 - 112 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. MILTON. NOTE 1. Page 29, line 1. 'twas at matin-time Love and Devotion are said to be nearly... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 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. MILTON. P. 81, 1. 17. '(teas at matin-time Love and devotion are said to be nearly allied.... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...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 after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I mifht perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | 1829 - 538 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!" We are not ashamed to say, that in contemplating this and similar examples, we are not sanguine... | |
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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... 
