 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...prompting which now grew daily upon me, that, by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of...die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these others — that, if I were certain to write, as men buy leases, for three lives and downwards, there... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 436 pages
...which it was my youthful ambition " to be for ever known," and part whereof I dare believe has been " so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die," it appeared proper that this poem, through which the author had been first made known to the public,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 494 pages
...upon me, that by labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with tfe strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave...aftertimes as 'they should not willingly let it die. — Milton. Nor can his wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated in his lifetime and writing what few would... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - Fiction - 1984 - 132 pages
...Cambridge University a manuscript in which the young Milton proposes various subjects for a long poem. "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die," he declared. He listed some ten or fifteen subjects, not knowing that one of them would prove prophetic:... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. (P. 54) Thus inspired, Milton extended the range of his activities spectacularly. For the first time... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to 5 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 470 pages
...prompting which grows daily upon me, that by labor and intent 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 as they should not willingly let it die?" The influence of universities upon historical... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...far-off view, we can realize that the Commonplace Book yields evidence of the preparation of a Milton to 'leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.' "19 For the Commonplace Book is a collection of topoi or topics to be employed as proofs in Milton's... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases, for three lives and... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...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...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.'" Although the Hammersmith and Horton days had seen him confident of poetical ability, the Italian experience... | |
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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 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... 
