 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...citizens throughout this island in O the mother dialect. That what the greatest and o choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits y should receive, would sooner take their physic at...Achilles, Cyrus, Л-Jieas ; and hearing them, must ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 356 pages
...iland in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Ilaly, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I,...could attain to that, but content with these British ilands as my world; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits bone whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...countrymen— the invariant essence of enduring reputation: "That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine" (CP I, 812). But as we know from the poems themselves, Milton also searched monumental... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those 20 Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above being a Christian, might doe for mine: not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 178 pages
...classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?" (in, 3)]. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...and above of being a Christian, might do for mine." Do we really believe, even when it comes from John Milton, in the seriousness of such an identification... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...country: "I apply'd my selfe to that resolution . . . [so] That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...did for their country, I in my proportion with this ever and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine" (Reason, 38). To this end, he began the study... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...own Citizens throughout this Iland in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine: not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British Islands as my world , . .'36 Implicit in such a statement, of course, is a clear conviction of poetic calling. Beyond doubt... | |
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That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine... 
