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" ... an inward 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 nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 53
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...he, ' I take to be my portion tn this ; life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,' he might ' leave something so written to after-. ' times, as they should not willingly let n die.' il appears in all his writmgs, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men...
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Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of ..., Volume 1

John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...daily upon" him, " that, by labour and intense study, joined with the strong propensity of nature," he " might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." The taste of the age, the example of his father, his own inclination, and the boldness of...
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Human Life: A Poem, Part 340

Samuel Rogers - 1819 - 112 pages
...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. MILTON. NOTE 1. Page 29, line 1. 'twas at matin-time Love and Devotion are said to be nearly...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 45

1835 - 564 pages
...works, encompassed as they were with danger and present darkness; necessary, too, to the sustainment of himself, devoted to the work of imagination as...nutantem pondere mundum,' Terrasque, tractusque maris, coelumque profundum Aspice, venture laetentur ut omnia saeclo !" But be that as it may, the hope was...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 340 pages
...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. MILTON. P. 81, 1. 17. '(teas at matin-time Love and devotion are said to be nearly allied....
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I mifht perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men...
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