 | 1850 - 638 pages
...now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, which I take to be my portion in this life, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times,...they should not willingly let it die.' — Milton on Church Government, B. u. ' can die, but so cannot their JOTS. And if the blessed martyrs ' and confessors... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...of my friends at home, and not ]css to an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might, perhaps, leave some- ' thing 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 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 steady... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...daily upon me, 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he qiight " 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 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),...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 412 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 steady... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...here at " home ; and not less to an inward prompt" ing which now grew daily upon me, that " by labour and intent Study, (which I take to be my portion in...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... | |
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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. 
