 | 1783 - 524 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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 pagine
...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,... 
