 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...9. See /or/, MILTON, 159. 1 which I have a particular reason,' says he, ' to remember ; fc whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning for...twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, being written bywhatever hand came next, might possibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing), having,... | |
 | 1906 - 856 pages
...have a particular reason , " says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the beginning, for some years, as I went from time to...pointing), having, as the summer came on, not been showed any for a considerable while, and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...composure of ' Paradise Lost,' ' which I have a particular reason,' says he, ' to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some 15 years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 pages
...says, "in the composure of this poem, which I have a particular occasion to remember ; for, whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, — which, being written by whatever hand came... | |
 | John Milton - 1911 - 304 pages
...passage in the composure of this poem, which I have a particular occasion to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...says, "in the composure of this poem, which I have a " particular occasion to remember; for, whereas I had the perusal of it from " the very beginning,...years as I went from time to time to visit him, " in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time — which, being written " by whatever hand came... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1918 - 398 pages
...[Paradise Lost], which I have a particular occasion to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal 10 of it from the very beginning ; for some years as I went from time to time to Visit him, in a Parcel of Ten. Twenty, or Thirty Verses at a Time, which being Written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 672 pages
...says, " in the composure of this poem, which I have a " particular occasion to remember; for, whereas I had the perusal of it from " the very beginning,...years as I went from time to time to visit him, " in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time — • which, being written "by whatever hand... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - 450 pages
...passage in the composure of this poem, which I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...passage in the composure_of this poem, which I have a particular occasion to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
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I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, being written by... 
