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" These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other : that if I were certain to write as men buy leases, 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. "
The North British review - Page 313
1852
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...For which cause, and not only for 'hat I knew it would be hard to arrive at the second rank am °ng the Latins, I applied myself to that resolution, which...followed, against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all we industry and art, I could unite, to the adorning of my native If yellow-tressed lisa read my lays;...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...regard be fooner had than to God's glory, by the honour and inftruction of my country. For which caufe, and not only for that I knew it would be hard to arrive at the fecond rank among the Latins, E applied myfelf to that refolution, which Arioflo followed againft the...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...regard be fooner had than to God's glory, by the honour and inftruclion of my country. For which caufe, and not only for that I knew it would be hard to arrive at the fecond rank among the Latins, I applied myfelf to that rcfolution, which Ariofto followed again ft...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...generous and patriotic sentiment in one of his prose tracts. " For which cause, and not only for ">tt I knew it would be hard to arrive at the second rank ""wig the Latins, I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariorto followed, against the persuasions...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...downward, there ought no regard be sooner bad than to God's glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. For which cause, and not only for that I knew it would be bard to arrive at the second rank among the Latins, I applied myself to that resolution which Ariosto...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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 not only for that I knew it would he hard to arrive at the second rank among the Latins, I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...downward, there ought no regard to be sooner had than to God's glory, by the honor and instruction of my country ; for which cause, and not only for that I...persuasions of Bembo to fix all the industry and art 1 could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end, (that were...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...only known.) d He expresses the same generous and patriotic sentiment in one of his prose tracts. " For which cause, and not only for that I knew it would...Latins, I applied myself to that resolution, which If yellow tressed Usa read my lays; Alan and gulfy Humber sound my praise; Trent's sylvan echoes answer...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...as he says, speaking of this design in his Reason of Church- Government, that " h« applied himself to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the art and industry he could unite to the ' adorning of his native tongue" — and again that he was then...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 4

John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...model, as he says, speaking of this design in his Reason of Church Government, that " he applied himself to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the art and industry he could unite to the adorning of his native tongue" — and again that he was then...
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