 ... 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
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...less to an inward prompting, which VOL. in. H now grew daily upon me, that with labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life)...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let die. " These thoughts at once possessed me; and these... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 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. Nor can his Wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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. The accomplishment of these intentions, which... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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. Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse, to give any certain account of what the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in thia life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature,...might perhaps leave something so written to after timea, as they should not willingly let it die.1' The poet then describes the high and mighty compass... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...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 after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these... | |
 | James Thorne - Thames River (England) - 1847 - 480 pages
...Government'), "an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which 1 take to be my portion in this life), joined with the...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written as they should not willingly let it die." It was no trifling task, he knew, to add one more poem fit... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...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... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...duties of the Muse. " 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 as they would not willingly let die, a. work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...thus far to assent * * 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." • Great and varied talents, which would singly have adorned any man, were in Bacon united. His powers... | |
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