| John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to refort, perceiving that fome trifles " which I had in memory, compofed at under twenty or thereabout " (for the manner is, that every one muft give a proof of his wit and " reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for, and... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...manner is, as he says himself in the Preface to his second book of the Reason of Church Government, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there, and his productions were received with written encomiums which the Italian is not forward to bestow... | |
| William Godwin - Children - 1797 - 508 pages
...Italy t whither I was favour'd to refort, perceiving that fome Trifles which I had in memory, compos'd at under twenty or thereabout (for the manner is, that every one muft give fome proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was lookt for, and... | |
| 1850 - 638 pages
...good herein would convince our unthankfulness.' — Hooker's Dedicatory Epistle. ' But much latelier in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured...which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabouts (for the manner is that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there), met... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...chiefly this latter, the style, by certain ** vital signs it had, was likely to live. But " much latelier in the private Academies ** of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, * Again, in the Defensio Secunda, he says, " I'~*er me f puerulum humaniorum literarum studiis destini.'it;... | |
| William Godwin - Conduct of life - 1823 - 444 pages
...Italy whither I was favour'd to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, compos'd at under twenty or thereabout (for the manner is,...reading there) met with acceptance above what was lookt for, and other things which I had shifted in scarsity of books and other conveniences to patch... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...Warton's note on the miliarity with the Italian Ian- verses Ai fgtrem, v. 83. /•.'. Church-government, " that every one must give some " proof of his wit and reading there," and his productions " were received with written encomiums which " the Italian is not forward to bestow... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...chiefly this latter, the style, by certain vital signs it had, was likely to live. But much latelier in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured...which I had in memory, composed at under twenty, or thereahout, (for the manner is, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there,)... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...his advancement, through the voL. I. I vital signs it had, was likely to live. But, much latelier, in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured...to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had composed at twenty, or thereabout * * * * met with acceptance above what was looked for;—and other... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...academies of Italy, whither I was favoured to .ч'-'Tt, perceiving that some trifles which I had in I I his wit and reading there), met with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other things which... | |
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