 | John Tulloch - 1861 - 536 страници
...his genius. " That which the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or Modern Italy, and these Hebrews of old, did for their country, I, in my proportion...and above of being a Christian, might do for mine." This had been his thought ; but for the present these intentions were " plucked from him by an abortive... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 страници
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 страници
...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 - 1863 - 564 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 1865 - 784 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
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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... 
