 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 pages
...would be unworthy such men to traffic with a dirty bookseller. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his " Paradise Lost," he did not reject it and commit his poems to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1902 - 540 pages
...Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. "—CHRISTIAN.... | |
 | James Burnley - 1902 - 452 pages
...would be unworthy such men to traffic with a dirty bookseller. When the bookseller offered Milton £$ for his ' Paradise Lost,' he did not reject it, and...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it."... | |
 | 1846 - 556 pages
...instructed and delighted the world. . ' When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Para' dise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to...accept the miserable pittance as the reward ' of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was -* immortality, and that posterity would pay... | |
 | Lyman Ray Patterson - 1991 - 297 pages
...bookseller for so much [as] a sheet of a letter press. When the bookseller offered Milton five pound for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the misarable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... | |
 | Jan IJ. van der Meer - 2002 - 344 pages
...bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commil it lo the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward for his labour: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality. and that posterity would pay... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 pages
...and delighted the world. . . . When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lust, he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames,...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours. No. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1814 - 174 pages
...Newton, " Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted " the world. When the bookseller offered " Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, " he did not reject...commit his poem " to the flames, nor did he accept the miser" able pittance as the reward of his labour ; " he knew that the real price of his work was "... | |
 | 1774 - 750 pages
...fiieet of letter« prtfs. When the bookfeller offered Milton 5!. for his faradife Loft, he did sot rejecT: it, and commit his poem to the flames : nor did he accept the mifcrable pittance as the reward of his labour; i* knew that the real price cf his work irai immortality,... | |
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When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... 
