 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 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 some years, as 1 went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...opportunity to observations and reports. 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 10... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 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 some years, as I wen£ from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which,... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...says, ' in the composure of this poem, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...says, ' in the composure of this poem, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 252 pages
...says, ' in the composure of this poem, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1897 - 654 pages
...from '' the very beginning, for some years as I went from time to time to visit him, " in a pareel of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time — which,...while, and desiring the reason thereof, was answered, " thiil his verse never happily flowed but from the Autumnal Equinoctial to the " Vernal [f'.t•.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...Lost,' " which I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal 25 of it from the very beginning for some years, as I...correction as to the orthography and pointing), having, from the autumnal equinox to the vernal ; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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...to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirtv verses at a time (which, being written by whatever hand came next, might possibly want correction... | |
 | John Milton - 1903 - 396 pages
...says, " in the composure of this poem, 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... | |
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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... 
