... 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. The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Página 86por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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... | |
| Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 páginas
...it was my youthful ambition " to be for ever known," and part whereof I dare believe has been " to written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die," it appeared proper that this poem through which the author had been first made known to the public, two-and-forty... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 páginas
...opinion, urn I confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study, which," say« ho, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with...nature," he might " leave something so written to aftertimee, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings that he had the... | |
| 1846 - 614 páginas
...prompting 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.' He devoted himself very seriously to study, and at an age when other men are just girding themselves... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1846 - 606 páginas
...prompting 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.' He devoted himself very seriously to study, and at an age when other men are just girding themselves... | |
| Robert Wharton Landis - 1846 - 398 páginas
...(which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined by the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let die."* Surely the self-confidence in these two passages is the same; only that Milton employs the word... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 páginas
...as appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, ' by labour and intense study, which,' says he, ' I take to be...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.' From Florence he went to Sienna, and from Sienna to Rome, where he was again received with kindness... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 616 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 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,... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 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 onee possessed me; and these other, that if I were eertain to write as men buy leases,... | |
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