 Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames — nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours : he knew...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4491836Full view - About this book
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1849 - 538 pages
...commit his poems to the flames; nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." But even if this were not so, and the advocate required the stimulus of the hope of present reward,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 528 pages
...offered Milton five pounds for his PARADISE LOST, he did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless of profit as others are rapacious of it, and in what a situation would... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pages
...offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise ' Lost, he did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the flames, nor did he ' accept the miserable pittance...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." Parl. Hixt. Xvii. 992. Having thus a great lawyer's opinion of those who " scribble for " their... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pages
...for his Paradite ' Lost, he did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the flames, nor did he 1 accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." Part. Hist. xvii. 992. Having thus a great lawyer's opinion of those who " scribble for " their... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...offer and commit "his piece to the flames, nor did he ac" cept the miserable pittance as the re" ward of his labours; he knew that the " real price of his...work was immortality, "and that posterity would pay it." Part. Sist. xvii. 992. Having thus a great lawyer's opinion of those who "scribble "for their... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1874 - 672 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay for it.' The 'Annual Register' for 1774 tells us that by this decision in the case of Donaldson v.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1874 - 550 pages
...commit his piece to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labors ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless of profit as others are rapacious of it, and in what a situation would... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." — Lord Camden's Argument against Literary Property. 13. In the examination of this right to... | |
 | 1877 - 626 pages
...years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. . . When...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.' * Lord North is described by Gibbon as ' seated on the Treasury bench, between his Attorney and... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 612 pages
...years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. . . . When...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'* Lord North is described by Gibbon as ' seated on the Treasury bench, between his Attorney and... | |
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