 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...citizens, throughout this island, in the motherdialect ; — 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 ;" and he again, more distinctly than before, though still only in general expressions, announced the... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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...to that, but content with these British islands as ray world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 366 pages
...— where the seed which he sows will not spring up to good or to evil ? "I care not," says Milton, " to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that ; being content with these Islands as my world." — Yet where may he not be named, and with reverence... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 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 ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, aa some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest did 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 - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modem Italy, •nd d yet in whom we see Things oft that [tyde] and oft...and Irus' poverty. And next in order sad, Old-Age bat content with these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians,... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 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 of old did for their country, 1, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do ' for mine ; not caring... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 pages
...he ought to reach, by performing for England " what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Home, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country." Here also, if we give Milton credit for knowing what was his own habitual piactice, and being above... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modem 7 7 @47 whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, u «orne say, made their small deeds great... | |
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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... 
