 ... 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
 | Conrad Busken Huet - Dutch literature - 1882 - 244 pages
...concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, bnt up and „stirring, in winter oftcu ere the sonnd of any bell awake men to labour, or „to devotion;...summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or notmuch „tardier, to read good anthors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be „ weary... | |
 | William Mathews - Conduct of life - 1883 - 398 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakens 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 attention be weary or memory have its full freight... | |
 | Christian fiction, English - 1883 - 302 pages
...was at his Btudies, in winter, often ere tho sound of any bell awoke men to labour or to devotion ; m summer, as oft with 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... | |
 | Charles Bullock - 1886 - 202 pages
...MILTON writes of himself, that "he was at his studies, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awoke men to labour or to devotion ; in summer, as oft with...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... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - Conduct of life - 1886 - 878 pages
...stirring early in the morning : " In winter, often ere the sound of any bell wakes man to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or to cause them to be read till the attention be ready, or memory have its full... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 378 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakens 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 the memory have its full... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1887 - 258 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake 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... | |
 | James Mason Hoppin - 1887 - 528 pages
...irregular feast, wit up and stirring — in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awoke men to labor or to devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first ronses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 402 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake 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 perfect... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 234 pages
...haunts are, he wisses not. ' Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping... but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors," PW III. 112. Among the Milton MSS found at Netherby Hall in Cumberland and printed... | |
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