... 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
 | 1805 - 574 pages
...home, not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, m wmter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour,...devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first arises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till attention be weary,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 536 pages
...limbec fails him, to give him and envy the more vexation, I will tell him. Those 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... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor 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 memory have its full fraught... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...and regularity of his own habits : My " morning haunts (he rejoins upon " a slanderous Adversary) are where they should be, at home, " not sleeping, or...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... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...should be, at home, " not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, " but up anil stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell...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... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 540 pages
...surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakes men to labour or to 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...says of himself in his Apology fur Smectynwuus, p. 109. vol. i. edit. 1738. "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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...morning, and prove the truth of what he says of himself in his Apology for Smectymnuus, " that he was up and stirring, in winter ' often ere the sound of...bird that first rouses, ' or not much tardier, to read ' good authors, &c :" and few minds, I believe, but such as are innocent and unstained with guilty... | |
 | Christian life - 1871 - 348 pages
...and great men need scarcely be adduced. John Milton writes of himself that he was at his studies " in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors till attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught ; then with useful and generous... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer aa 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 Cull fraught."... | |
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