 ... 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.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Pàgina 86per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1850 - 638 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " hy labour " and intense study, which," fays he, " I take to be my portion in this life, " joined...nature," he might " leave something so " written to aftcrtimes, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all Lis writings, that he had... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pàgines
...in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intenfe ftudy, which," fays he, "I take to be my portion in this life, " joined with a ftrong propenfity of nature," he might " leave fomething fo written to after-times, " as they fhould... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pàgines
...as appears to have exalted htm in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, ' by labor and intense study, ' which,' says he, ' I take to be my portion tn this ; life, joined with a strong propensity of nature,' he might ' leave something so written to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pàgines
...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...willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings thathe had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady confidence in himself, perhaps... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...as appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, by labour E 4 " and intense study, which," says he, " I take to...Be " my portion in this life, joined with a strong propen" sity of nature," he might " leave something so writ" ten to after-times, as they should not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pàgines
...as appears to have exalted him in his own opinion, and confirmed him in the hope, that, " by labour and intense study, which," says he, " I take to be...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pàgines
...(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,... | |
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