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" ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory... "
The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ... - Page 111
by William Hayley - 1810
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Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity: L'allegro, Il Penseroso ...

John Milton - 1918 - 236 pages
...haunts are, he wisses not.' Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping... but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read...
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Comus: & Lycidas

John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...26. A glance at Milton's own habits. Cf. the Apology for Smectymnuus, where he speaks of himself as "up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read...
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La pensée de Milton

Denis Saurat - 1920 - 386 pages
...give him and envy Ihe more vexation, I will lell him. Those morning haunts are where they should he, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits...winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 18

1921 - 500 pages
...against the charge that his days and nights are spent in dissipation. These morning haunts are where they should be, — at home ; not sleeping, or concocting...stirring, — in winter often ere the sound of any bell awaken men to labour or devotion, in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier,...
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Milton & the Art of War

James Holly Hanford - 1921 - 50 pages
...against the charge that his days and nights are spent in dissipation. These morning haunts are where they should be, — at home; not sleeping, or concocting...stirring, — in winter often ere the sound of any bell awaken men to labour or devotion, in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier,...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp].

Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 794 pages
..." My morning haunts are where they ihould b'e, at home ; not sleeping, or conooctiuz thu M id'ri u of an irregular feast, but up and stirring : in winter, often ere the sound of any bell nwukii men to labour or devotion ; in mmmer, a» oft with the bird that firrt rouses, or not much tar....
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English Literature: With Illustrations from Poetry and Prose

Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 pages
...pamphlets, when he was repelling an unjust attack on his personal character, he wrote that he was " up and stirring in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier." In L'...
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Western Reserve Studies, Volume 1, Issue 8

Western Reserve University - 1924 - 104 pages
...malicious Representation even of his early rising, he tells him, that his "Morning haunts are, where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the...irregular Feast, but up and stirring, in Winter often before the Sound of any Bell awakens Men to Labor or Devotion ; in Summer as oft as the Bird that first...
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Acta et commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis (Dorpatensis).: Humaniora. B

1926 - 524 pages
...haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeit of an irregulär feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bei] awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much...
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 21 1867

New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 1994 - 428 pages
...morning haunts arc where they should l>c, at home. Not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of ;in irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any liell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer us oft with the liinl that first rises, or not mueli...
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