 I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to 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...  Poems - Page 106by Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Bennett - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 288 pages
...vols., eds. Douglas Bush et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), 1.81o, on the desire to 'leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die'. 48 For other comments on posterity, see MYu.y'1, Supplement, pp. 163, 177, LY rv.315; on Wordsworth's... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1995 - 866 pages
...An adaptation of Milton's words in The Reason of Church Government, Book H, Introduction to ch. 1: 'I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.' To Ellen Nussey, 26 November 1850 [Haworth] Dear Ellen There is no chance of my getting either to Brookroyd... | |
 | N. H. Keeble - History - 2001 - 322 pages
...'time serves not now', he launches into an elaborate literary autobiography that reveals his desire to 'leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die' (1:810), possibly in the ambitious form of epic. Inspired like the prophet Isaiah, Milton is a poetic... | |
 | Gary A. Olson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 202 pages
...Milton His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. —John Milton By labour and intent study (which I take to be my...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die. —John Milton yet he pleas'd the ear, / And with... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...my emphasis). 6:^ Johnson takes as truth Milton's declaration while on the Grand Tour that he would "perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die" (para. 25). t'4 Furthermore, there is no hint, at least as far as Paradise Lost is concerned, of the... | |
 | Dustin Griffin - History - 2005 - 332 pages
..."Priestless Muse forbids the Good to dye, / And ope's the Temple of Eternity," Milton's famous ambition to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die," and Henry V's famous speech at Agincourt, where the "passport" back home of those who have "no stomach... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in...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... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 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),...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,0... | |
 | Richard H. Lansing - Poets, Italian - 2003 - 432 pages
...of Church-Government, he refers to "an inward prompting" that by labor and intent study . . . joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...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 - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 256 pages
...speaks of the great 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... | |
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