 | Richard H. Lansing - 2003 - 432 páginas
...prompting" that by labor and intent study . . . 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. . . . For which cause, and not only for that I knew it would be hard to arrive at the second rank among... | |
 | Anthony David Nuttall, Professor of English and Fellow A D Nuttall - 2003 - 256 páginas
...Italian academies and then of the inward prompting to undertake a great work, that "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" — all this seen as tending to the "honour" of his country.86 Pattison is pretty consistently clear... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 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 die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other; that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,1"0... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 páginas
...prompting": besides expressing his national literary aspirations, it expresses his Renaissance ambition to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (YP 1:810): it highlights his sense of the Bible as poetic (with its "frequent songs"): and it articulates... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 páginas
...labor of his daughters to fulfill the promise he made in The Reason of Church Government (1642) to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (RCG, 668). But what of the laboring girls? Romney has also tried to capture their experience of this... | |
 | Andrew Escobedo - 2004 - 284 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. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases,... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 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 die."51 Literature at its highest, and Milton's Paradise Lost is surely the most sublime "work" in... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 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" (810). The prophetic quality of Milton's remarks has been demonstrated in the centuries intervening... | |
 | Jason Lawrence - 2005 - 244 páginas
...that by labour and intent study . . . 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.19 Milton envisages this great work as a vernacular epic poem, and he considers it specifically... | |
 | 100 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." (from The Reason of Church Government, 1641) Milton died from 'gout struck in' on November 8, 1674... | |
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... 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 after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. 
