 ... 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...  The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ... - Page 26by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 496 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 510 pages
...Note 13, page 13, col. 1. And Milton's self. I began thus far to assent ... to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent...let it die — MILTON Note 14, page 13, col. 1. *t WHS at matin-time. Love and devotion are said to be nearly allied Boccaccio fell in love at Naples... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 60 pages
...I hegan 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...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. — MILTON. Page 12, col. 2, line 46. . . . 'twas... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 584 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
...by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strongest propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something...times, as they should not willingly let it die."* Klopstock, in one of his best odes, has described the instinctive desire of future reputation, and... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...embellish the ideal he had conceived. In his own simple language, he says, '•! felt an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent...nature, I might, perhaps, leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." Such was the language of Milton's youth, but... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...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...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. — MILTON. P. 91, 1. 21. . . . "/irus at matin-time... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...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,)...times, as they should not willingly let it die."* Great and varied talents, which would singly have adorned any man, were in Bacon united. His powers... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 860 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grows daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die." These words were published in 1641, when Milton... | |
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