 ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or...  Demosthenes - Page xxiby Demosthenes - 1859 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught;... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...than early rising. Milton, speaking of his own morning occupations, says, " My morning haunts are, where they should be, at home, — not sleeping, or...devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor, or devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught;... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1850 - 594 pages
...experience, being an early riser, as we learn from his Apology for Snuctymnut : '• My morning haunts are where they should be, at home, not sleeping or concocting...devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 188 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...self-education. Thus he says to us, in his apology for his early life and writings, " My morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier ; to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught... | |
 | 1851 - 508 pages
...pleasantly his own brief account of his habit of early rising reads! — " Those morning haunts ar# where they should be, at home ; not sleeping or concocting...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1851 - 494 pages
...t Hist. iii. J De Contemptu Mundi, ii. 18. § De Finibus, ii. 20. y Ovid. Met. xi. 605. H D. ia 3. they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught... | |
 | James Elmes - Architects - 1852 - 500 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring. In winter often ere the sound of any bell awakes men to labour or devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught.... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awaken men to labour or devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or pause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or the memory have its full... | |
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