 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...winter, and on his waking in a morning would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses: and being asked whether he did not often read Homer and...from nobody but the Muse who inspired him; and being asked by a lady present who the Muse was, replied it was God's grace, and the Holy Spirit that visited... | |
 | Joseph Mawman - 1805 - 326 pages
...sometimes " twenty or thirty verses ; and being asked " (as we learn from Newton's Life of " Milton) whether he did not often read " Homer and Virgil, she understood it &s " an imputation upon him, for stealing " from those authors ; and answered wifh " eagerness, that... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1811 - 656 pages
...memory ; and could not bear to hear the least imputation of plagiarism ascribed to him. She used to say, that he stole from nobody but the muse who inspired him, and that muse was God's grace, and the Holy Spirit, which visited him nightly. She probably had heard him... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...in the winter; and, on his waking on a morning, would make her write down twenty or thirty verses. Being asked, ' Whether he did not often read Homer...understood it as an imputation upon him for stealing from these authors ; and answered, with eagerness, that ' he stole from nobody but the Muse that inspired... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...winter, and on his waking in a morning would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses : and being asked whether he did not often read Homer and...from nobody but the Muse who inspired him ; and being asked by a lady present who the Muse was, replied it was Cod's grace, and the Holy Spirit that visited... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...winter, and on his waking in a morning would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses: and being asked whether he did not often read Homer and...from nobody but the Muse who inspired him; and being asked by a lady present who the Muse -was, replied it was God's grace, and the Holy Spirit that visited... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...winter ; and on his waking in a morning would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses. Being asked, whether he did not often read Homer and...stealing from those authors, and answered with eagerness, " he stole from nobody but the Muse who inspired him ;" and, being asked by a lady present who the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...winter, and on his waking on a morning would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses. Being asked whether he did not often read Homer and...understood it as an imputation upon him for stealing from these authors, and answered with eagerness, that he stole from nobody but the muse that inspired him... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...winter; and on his waking in a morning, would make her write down sometimes twenty or thirty verses. Being asked, whether he did not often read Homer and...stealing from those authors, and answered with eagerness, " Ho stole from nobody but the Muse who inspired him :" and, being asked by a lady present who the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...widow, being asked whether he did not often read Homer and Virgil, she understood it as an imputation on him for stealing from those authors, and answered...from nobody but the Muse who inspired him." And being asked by a lady present, who the Muse was, replied, " It was God's grace and the Holy Spirit that visited... | |
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... being asked whether he did not often read Homer and Virgil, she understood it as an imputation upon him for stealing from those authors, and answered with eagerness that he stole from nobody but the Muse who inspired him; and being asked by a lady... 
