 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...  Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden - Page 136by Samuel Johnson - 1905Full view - About this book
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...compofure of this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himself, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaclion, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much.... | |
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...compofure of this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaclion, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much.... | |
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...compofure of this poem, which he Cays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfafh'on, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much.... | |
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...compofure of. this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, 35 it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaction, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...twenty, or thirty verfes at a " time (which, being written by what" ever hand came next, might poffibly " want correction as to the orthography " and pointing), having, as the Summer " came on, not been fhewed any for a " confiderable while; and defiring the '' reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his "vein... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...on, not been fliewed any for a "confidence while; and defiring the " reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his •" vein never happily flowed but from " the Autumnal Equinox to the Vernal ; " and MILTON. •'' and that whatever he attempted at -" other times was never to his fatisfac<c tion, though... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...Whoever has read Milton's life will recoiled the circumftance which is related by his nephew Philips, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal. This dependence of the foul upon the feafons is very juftly ridiculed by his prefent hiftorian ; and... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...read Milton's life will recollect the circumftance which is related by his nephew Philips, that bis vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal. This dependence of the foul upon the feafons is very juftly ridiculed by his prefent hiftcrian ; and... | |
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...not been fhewed any for a confiderable ** while, and defiring the reafon thereof, was '* anfwered, that his vein never happily flowed •* but from the Autumnal Equinox to the ec 4* i; " Vernal ; and that whatever he attempted "• at other times was never to his fdtisfaction,... | |
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...on, not been fhewed '' any for a confiderable while, and defiring the reafon " thereof, was anfwcred, that his vein never happily " flowed but from the Autumnal Equinox to the Ver" nal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times " was never to his fatisfaction, though he... | |
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