 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - Страниц: 552
...author himself as to his prose — " In this manner of writing, knowing myself inferior to myself, Jed by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use as I may account it, but of ray left hand."* As we read this we are not to forget the other declaration of the author... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - Страниц: 464
...the good speeding, that t if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. \ Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of J my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be... | |
 | John Milton - 1889 - Страниц: 468
...to the good speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power oi nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but oi my left hand. And though I shall... | |
 | 1891 - Страниц: 1034
...not likely to be a serviceable party hack. He was aware of his own unfitness for this drudgery : " Knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." * Yet he would not refrain from a species of writing which alone enabled him to take part in a contest... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - Страниц: 412
...and religious freedom through the medium of prose, " a manner of writing," as he himself tells us, " wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." His determination, on his return from the Continent, to devote his energies to the composition of a... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - Страниц: 1126
...said, he would write with leisurely care upon such a subject as of itself might catch applause, and should not choose " this manner of writing wherein...led by the genial power of nature to another task, 1 have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Many a man of genial temper and predominating... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - Страниц: 628
...to the good speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will be such a folly, as... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - Страниц: 688
...inferior to their prelatical opponents in scholarship. He tells us himself that he " was not disposed to this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." In 1643, in his thirty-fifth year, Milton married Mary Powell, daughter of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - Страниц: 624
...to the good speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myseif, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - Страниц: 104
...of." But on this head Milton is his own critic, when he says: " If I were wise only to my own ends I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...have the use as I may account but of my left hand." 1 And yet Milton's greatness as a prose writer is hardly sufficiently recognized. The subject-matter... | |
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Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. 
