 | 1849 - 600 strani
...far to assent * * * to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die."* Great and varied talents, which would singly have... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 strani
...less to an inward prompting, which VOL. in. H now grew daily upon me, that with labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life)...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let die. " These thoughts at once possessed me; and these... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 strani
...to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not lew to an inward prompting, which now grew r I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd wel mv portion in this life), joined to the •tri'ij;: propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 strani
...which men should not willingly let die, he knew what it would cost him. It was to be " by labor atid intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life." When Mr. Dickens wrote one of his Christmas Books, he shut himself up for six weeks to do it ; he "put... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1845 - 340 strani
...— as men, we share his fame) I began thus far to assent ... to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. — MILTON. Nor can his Wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 strani
...home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life,)...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 strani
...to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 strani
...which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in thia life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature,...might perhaps leave something so written to after timea, as they should not willingly let it die.1' The poet then describes the high and mighty compass... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 strani
...he had ventured to indulge the hope that, by labour and study — " which I take,'' he nobly says, "to be my portion in this life " — joined with the strong propensity of nature, he " might perhaps leave something so written in after-times as they should not willingly let it die... | |
 | Robert Wharton Landis - 1846 - 404 strani
...upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined by the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let die."* Surely the self-confidence in these two passages... | |
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... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, 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... 
