 | Edward Christian - 1807 - 100 trang
...the scribblers for bread, who teize the press with their " wretched productions : fourteen years are too long a " privilege for their perishable trash....Milton, Locke, instructed and " delighted the world. When the bookseller offered " Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not " reject it and... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 trang
...the scribblers for bread, who teaze " the press with their wretched productions. Fourteen years are too " long a privilege for their perishable trash....Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. " When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, " he did not reject it, and... | |
 | 1836 - 600 trang
...for bread, who tease the world with their wretched productions ; fourteen years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise... | |
 | 1819 - 596 trang
...of the scribblers for bread, who tease the press with their wretched productions; fourteen years are too long a privilege for their perishable trash. It...Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit... | |
 | 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 - 622 trang
...the scribblers for bread* who tease the press with their wretched productions ; fourteen years are too long a privilege for their perishable trash. It...Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit... | |
 | 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 trang
...wretched productions ; fourteen years are too long a privilege for their perishable trash. It was rtot for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 trang
...for bread, who tease the press with their wretched productions : fourteen years are too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that...Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit... | |
 | 1825 - 486 trang
...for bread, who tease the press with their wretched productions : fourteen years are too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that...Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit... | |
 | 1836 - 708 trang
...for bread, who tease the press with their wretched productions. Fourteen years are too long a journey for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that...Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world." This is, no doubt, ,very appropriate language for a peer, who never knew any other condition than that... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 trang
...for bread, who tease the world with their wretched productions; fourteen years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit... | |
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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, and that posterity would pay it. 
