 ... 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
 | Literature - 1909 - 838 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1848 - 740 pages
...of life an early riser, — ' up and stirring in the morning often ere the sound of any bell awoke men to labour or to devotion : in summer, as oft,...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors till the attention was weary, or memory had its full fraught.' He kept his mental... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1918 - 236 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. i12. Among the Milton MSS found at Netherby Hall in Cumberland and printed... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...26. A glance at Milton's own habits. Cf. the Apology for Smectymnuus, where he speaks of himself as "up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors," PW III. 1n. Among the Milton MSS found at Netherby Hall in Cumberland and printed... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1920 - 386 pages
...give him and envy Ihe more vexation, I will lell him. Those morning haunts are where they should he, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits...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 Holly Hanford - 1921 - 50 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 cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught;... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 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 attentiou be weary, or memory have its full fraught:... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1921 - 726 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 cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught;... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...wrote that he was " 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." In L' Allegro he wrote this appeal: Mirth, admit me of thy crew, * * * * To hear the lark begin his... | |
 | Humanities - 1926 - 522 pages
...stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bei] awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer 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 füll... | |
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