 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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...but content with these British islands as my world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...citizens, throughout this island, in the mother-dialect; — that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world ; " and he again, more distinctly than before, though still only in general expressions, announced... | |
 | Joseph William Morris - 1862 - 134 pages
...written in after times as they should not willingly let it die. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world." Calmly and stedfastly, through the storm of such revolution as England but once has seen, he preserves... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...but content with these British islands as my world; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that, if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...citizens, throughout this island, in the mother-dialect; — that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps 1 could attain to that, but content with these British islands as my world ; " and he again, more distinctly... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...years before he had begun the composition of his Paradise Lost, he announces to us that he had already formed with himself " that resolution which Ariosto...but content with these British Islands as my world." The preference given upon the revival of literature to the Latin language, however, was in part a natural... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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...but content with these British islands as my world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that, if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 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...but content with these British islands as my world; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | 1866 - 492 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...but content with these British islands as my world." Of his future great design ("Paradise Lost"), "of highest hope and hardiest attempting," he thus speaks... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 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...for their country, I, in my proportion, with this advantage of being a Christian, might do for mine." The literature of that age stood greatly in need... | |
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That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine... 
