 ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3271850Full view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...encomiums with which his writings were received there, he says, " I began to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to...which now grew daily upon me, that, by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...hope, a repose of grander and more colleeted glory. The "inward prompting" never abandoned him — "that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life.) joined with the strong: propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 60 pages
...proper to hasten home. Page 12, col. 1, line 68. And MILTON'S self, I hegan thus far to assent ... to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Honor - 1841 - 40 pages
...which would convey his name to latest times, when he uttered this sentiment: " I began to assent to my friends here at home, and not less to an inward...study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strongest propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...not forward to hestow on men of this side the Alps ; I hegan thus far to assert to them, and several of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that with lahour and intense study, (which I take to he my portion in this life) joined with strong propensity... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Medicine - 1842 - 864 pages
...diligence and meditation nan? years before his great poem, was published to the world. He says, " I hope, by labour and intense study, which I take to be my portion in this life, I may have something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let die." THE BARBER-SURGEONS.... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...continues to produce upon mankind. "I began thus far to assent both to them and to dirers of my friends at home. and not less to an Inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour mod intense stndy, f which I take to be my ponion In this life.l joined with the strong propensity... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1843 - 352 pages
...greatness of their young admirers ? P. 89, 1. 20. And MILTON'S self I began thus far to assent ... to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature,... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 860 pages
...composed at under twenty or thereabout, met with acceptance . . . I began thus far to assent to them, and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grows daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps ; I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which VOL. in. H now grew daily upon me, that with labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion... | |
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