 | 1783 - 524 Seiten
...delighted the world. When the bookfeller offered Milton 5!. for his Paradife Loft, he did not rejedl it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 700 Seiten
...and delignted the " world. When the bookfeller oftercd Milton five pounds for his " Paradife Loft, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the " flames, nor did he accept the miferable pittance as the reward " of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was im"... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 676 Seiten
...and delighted the " world. When the bookfeller offered Milton five pounds for his " Paradife Loft, he did not reject, it, and commit his poem to the " flames, nor did he accept the niiferable pittance as the reward «« of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1801 - 284 Seiten
...world. When " the bookfeller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradife Loft, " he did.not rcje"5l it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did " he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he " knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 Seiten
...Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. " When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, " he did not reject...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; he knew " that the real price of bis work was immortality, and that posterity " would pay it."... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 738 Seiten
...of a letter press. When the bookseller offered Milton fite pound for his Paradise Lost, he did cot reject it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor...the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; ne knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1813 - 600 Seiten
...Newton,' Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When me bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it,...and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept this miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; 1 Milton's 1'roscWockl, 4to. ••»>• ip 17*.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 Seiten
...Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 Seiten
...pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not leject it, and commit his poem to the flames ; nor did be accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he knew, that the real price of his work 's.-ai immortality, and that posterity would pay it." ARTHUR LORD CAPEL. 105. LORD CLARENDON said of... | |
 | 1836 - 602 Seiten
...that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it,...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f... | |
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When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... 
