 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 էջ
...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...for three lives and downward, there ought no regard be sooner had than to God's glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. For which cause, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 էջ
...portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave snniething so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. I must say, therefore, that after I had for my first years, by the ceaseless diligence and care of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 էջ
...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...for three lives and downward, there ought no regard be sooner had, than to God's glory, by the honor and instruction of my country. For which cause, and... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 էջ
...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. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 էջ
...be the portion of his life, he might be' the instrument of some good, and "perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die." His chief aim was, as he has himself said, to be "an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 էջ
...essentially now and in the future: the once famous has fame no more. "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." The syntax makes "to" two, doing double duty with "leave (to)" and "written (to)." Writing to aftertimes—... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - 1984 - 132 էջ
...which the young Milton proposes various subjects for a long poem. "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die," he declared. He listed some ten or fifteen subjects, not knowing that one of them would prove prophetic:... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - 1991 - 492 էջ
...life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to 5 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, for three lives and... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 էջ
...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, for three lives and... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 էջ
...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 the Hammersmith and Horton days had seen him confident of poetical ability, the Italian experience... | |
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... 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. 
