| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 páginas
...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. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself... | |
| John Milton - 1819 - 484 páginas
...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 i "die*." Sufficient has been said in these preceding remarks to satisfy all who read them, that in... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 páginas
...staid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the academies, and produced his compositions with such applause as appears to have exalted him...something so written to after-times, as they should not tvillingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great... | |
| John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 páginas
...with the most painful throes. Milton himself says, " by labour and intense study, which I take to.be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature, I may leave something so written to after ages as they should not willingly let die." Demosthenes's... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1822 - 526 páginas
...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 die93." Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place... | |
| William Godwin - 1823 - 442 páginas
...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 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 páginas
...staid two months at Florence; where he found his way into the academies, and produced his compositions with such applause as appears to have exalted him...something so written to after-times, as they should not willmgly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities,... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 páginas
...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 - 508 páginas
...staid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the academies, and produced his compositions with such applause, as appears to have exalted him...life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," be might •' leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." It... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...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 buy leases,... | |
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