 | 1850 - 638 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the academies, and produced his composi., tlons with such applause as appears to have exalted him...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study, which," urs he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined...after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings thathe had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...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."' Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place even in... | |
 | 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
...appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, by labour £ 4 and intense study, which," says he, " I take to be...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
...(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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...and literature; and though he seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country, staid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...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. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive myself... | |
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... that by labour and 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. 
