Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and... The Twentieth Century - Page 741885Full view - About this book
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps klle, yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle, and swainish breast. For by thie firm settling of these persuasions, I became to... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle, yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle, and swainish breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became to... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle ; yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast: for by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became, to... | |
| John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...object of not unlike praises. * * * Nor blame it readers in those [youthful] years, to propose to myself such a reward as the noblest dispositions above other...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast. but also by Guarini and Pigna. The latter of these wri- CHAP,... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to pro-. pose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dispositions...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle, and swainish breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became to... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle, yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgement, and withal an ungentle and swinish breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions,... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle ; yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast. For, by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became, to... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle, yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast. For by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became, to... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...only pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle; yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle, and swainish breast: for by the firm settling of these persuasions, I became, to... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...pardonable, to a third sort perhaps idle ; yet the mentioning of them now will end in serious. 25. Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to...dispositions above other things in this life have someBesides, if he wanted a model for poetical epistles, it would have been strange to find him groping... | |
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