| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1900 - 328 pages
...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost,...credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." And when he came to redeem his pledge, in the very opening lines of his epic, trusting to the same... | |
| Mark Pattison - 1900 - 240 pages
...select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs. Till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost,...sustain this expectation, from as many as are not lotb to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them. In 1638, at the age of... | |
| Mark Pattison - 1901 - 232 pages
...select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous acts and affairs. Till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost,...credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." In 1638, at the age of nine and twenty, Milton has already determined that this lifework shall be a... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 532 pages
...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs—till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost,...sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to fiazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.' It is material to a right judgment... | |
| Arthur Jerome Eddy - 1902 - 298 pages
...select reading, steady observation, insight into all generous and seemly arts and affairs, till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost,...to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges I can give them." How much of the art of to-day is " raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of... | |
| William John Courthope - 1903 - 590 pages
...select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous art and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost...credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much before hand, but that I trust hereby to... | |
| John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs, — till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost...credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." There is evidence that, about the time when Milton thus announced to the public his design of some... | |
| Oscar Kuhns - 1904 - 302 pages
...measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from such as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." In general temper there seems to be a remarkable similarity here with the closing lines of Dante's... | |
| Oscar Kuhns - 1904 - 308 pages
...select reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from such as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." In general... | |
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