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" ... 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 26
by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 496 pages
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An Account of the Life, Opinions, and Writings of John Milton: With an ...

Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 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 aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me and these other...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, Volume 2

Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 384 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...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, Volume 2

Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1855 - 376 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...to after times, as they should not willingly let it die/7* Klopstock, in one of his best odes, has described the instinctive desire of future reputation,...
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Lectures Read to the Seniors in Harvard College

Edward Tyrrel Channing - English language - 1856 - 356 pages
...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 labor and intent...after times, as they should not willingly let it die.' In such terms does this firm-tempered young man speak of himself, after he had written Lycidas, L'Allegro,...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Book 2. A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancy, with his garland and singing robes about him. By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 3-5

1856 - 864 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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that with labor and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to afterdates, as they should not willingly let it die. I must say, therefore, that after I had for my...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 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,...
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 2

James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other, that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,...
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 2

James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other, that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,...
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