 ... an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, 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...  Poems - Page 106by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...(his Italian friends,) "and divers of my friends at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study,...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimcs, as they should not willing;! v let it die." f O * Although, from the example of the Italian... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...upon ra«, that by labcrar and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to 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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...upon rrte, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to 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... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - English poetry - 1807 - 628 pages
...portion in this " life; joined with a strong propensity " of nature; I might perhaps leave some" thing, so written, to after-times, as " they should not willingly let it die."—- What might not be atchieved by such a conscious, and well-grounded ambition, which deemed its own efforts... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life)...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... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...Italian intimates,) " and divers of my friends at home, and not ]css to an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study,...aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die." ' Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place even... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by, labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftevtimes, as they should not willingly let it die."t That it was the conversation, and encouragement... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings thathe had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady... | |
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