 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...accomplished ? Hear the answer in the words of one of the noblest of the sons of men. " An inward prompting grew daily upon me, that, by labor 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,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Honor - 1841 - 40 pages
...times, when he uttered this sentiment: " I began to assent to my friends here at 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) joined with the strongest propensity... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...remarks of Milton should be borne in mind : " An inward prompting grew 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 something so written to after-times, as... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...was paid them, and foreseen the greatness of their young admirers ? P. 89, 1. 20. And MILTON'S self I began thus far to assent ... 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 360 pages
...was paid them, and foreseen the greatness of their young admirers ? P. 89, l. 20. And MILTON'S self I began thus far to assent ... 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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...mankind. "I began thus far to assent both to them and to dirers of my friends at home. and not less to an Inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour mod intense stndy, f which I take to be my ponion In this life.l joined with the strong propensity... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...carried forward these things somewhat." Well might he have added in the touching words of Milton, " I began thus far to assent * * * to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...which men should not willingly let die, he knew what it would cost him. It was to be " by labor atid intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life." When Mr. Dickens wrote one of his Christmas Books, he shut himself up for six weeks to do it ; he "put... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 pages
...18. And MILTON'S self (at that thrice-honoured name Well may we glow — as men, we share his fame) I began thus far to assent ... 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...looked for ; 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 intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity... | |
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... 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. 
