 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...dialect : that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hehrews of old, did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and ahove, of heing a Christian, might do for mine. " Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...inland, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest ¡ «id choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modem blithe looks, fresh cheeks, beguile Ape ? 1 hri«tian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once [inmed abroad, though perhaps I could attain... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...Reasons against Prelaty," written many years before he had begun the composition of his Paradise Lost, he announces to us that he had formed with himself "...my proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...citizens, throughout this island, in the motherdialect ; — that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...my proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1847 - 384 pages
...formed, with himself, " that resolution which Ariosto followed, against the persuasions of Benibo, to fix all the industry and art he could unite, to...my proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest did choicest wits adow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas !...what true pleasure meant.' And how came you, Madam,' Christian, might do for mine; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modem Italy, •nd d yet in whom we see Things oft that [tyde] and oft that never be ; Without respect, eatccm[ing] equ Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain to... | |
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... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their... 
