 ... 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 - Pàgina 91per Samuel Johnson - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - 2003 - 412 pàgines
...where, in response to the "inward prompting" of thoughts that have long "possest" him, he "might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (810). It is from those exalted "intentions" that he has been "pluckt" by the "abortive and foredated... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 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. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other; that if I were certain to write as men buy leases,1"0... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 pàgines
...prompting": besides expressing his national literary aspirations, it expresses his Renaissance ambition to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (YP 1:810): it highlights his sense of the Bible as poetic (with its "frequent songs"): and it articulates... | |
 | Richard H. Lansing - 2003 - 432 pàgines
...prompting" that by labor and intent study . . . joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. . . . For which cause, and not only for that I knew it would be hard to arrive at the second rank among... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 pàgines
...labor of his daughters to fulfill the promise he made in The Reason of Church Government (1642) to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (RCG, 668). But what of the laboring girls? Romney has also tried to capture their experience of this... | |
 | Morris Eaves - 2003 - 332 pàgines
..."niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem" (Apology for Smectymnus, Hughes 694); in art, a "lofty and steady confidence in himself, perhaps not without some contempt of others."9 Belatedly, Milton grasps the Gospel truth that he who loves his life shall lose it, and in... | |
 | Andrew Escobedo - 2004 - 284 pàgines
...I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases,... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 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."51 Literature at its highest, and Milton's Paradise Lost is surely the most sublime "work" in... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 pàgines
...I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (810). The prophetic quality of Milton's remarks has been demonstrated in the centuries intervening... | |
 | Jason Lawrence - 2005 - 244 pàgines
...that by labour and intent study . . . joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.19 Milton envisages this great work as a vernacular epic poem, and he considers it specifically... | |
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