 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...composure of Paradise Lost, " which I have a particular reason," says he, "to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never happily flowed but from the Autumnal Equinox to the Vernal; and that whatever he attempted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...composure of Paradise Lost, " which I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...pointing), having, as the summer came on, not been showed any for a considerable while, and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...composure of Paradise Lost, '"which I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 506 pages
...composure of Paradise Lost, " which I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...pointing; having, as the summer came on, not been showed any for a considerable while, and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 512 pages
...composure of Paradise Lost, " which I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...pointing; having, as the summer came on, not been showed any for a considerable while, and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, that his vein never... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 pages
...passage in the composure of Paradise Lost, which I have a particular occasion to remember ; for, whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which, being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...composure of ' Paradise Lost, which I have a particular reason,' says he, * to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years, as I went from time to time to visit him , in parceis of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...passage in the composure of Paradise Lost, which I have a particular occasion to remember; for, whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for...years as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a tune, which, being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...of Paradise Lost, which I have a particular occasion to remember; for, whereas I had the perusal af it from the very beginning, for some years as I went from time to time to visit him, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time, which, being written by whatever hand came next,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...began this poem in his forty-eighth year,* and finished it in his fifty-seventh. Philips says that he had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time ; and that his vein never happily flowed but... | |
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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 by... 
