... 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
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 346 pages
...lembec 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:... | |
 | John Milton - 1924 - 232 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 m. 112. Among the Milton MSS found at Netherby Hall in Cumberland and printed... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Success - 1902 - 708 pages
...thus describes his own habits : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott - English literature - 1904 - 330 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:... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 638 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 perfect... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 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 perfect... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 482 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 490 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... | |
 | William Willis - 1909 - 42 pages
...surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awaken 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 memory have its full fraught."... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 814 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 perfect... | |
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