 | 1850 - 638 pages
...now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, which I take to be my portion in this life, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.' — Milton on Church Government, B. u. ' can die, but so cannot their JOTS. And if the blessed martyrs... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...friends at home, and not less to-an inward prompting, which grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die."' Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place even in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might, perhaps, leave some- ' thing 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 buy leases,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave...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 buy leases,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he qiight " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, met with acceptance above what was looked for; I began thus far to assent both to them and divers...after-times as they should not willingly let it die. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward pronipting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense...after-times as they should not willingly let it die. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in " this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady... | |
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... 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. 
