| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Beinbo, to fix all the industry mid art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue. ;...not to make verbal curiosities the end — That were u toilsome vanity; but to be an interpreter, and relater of the best and nagest things among mine own... | |
| Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 páginas
...something to after times, ' so written as they should not willingly let it die.' His ambition was, he says, to be ' an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout the island, in the mother-dialect— that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern... | |
| 1889 - 610 páginas
...instruction of my country. For which cause ... I applied myself ... to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ;...not to make verbal curiosities the end, that were a toylsom vanity ; but to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own... | |
| John Milton - 1889 - 468 páginas
...resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end — that were aj toilsome vanity, — but to be an interpreter and relater of the best I and sagcst things among... | |
| John Milton - 1889 - 464 páginas
...resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of .my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end—that were a toilsome vanity,—but to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things... | |
| John Milton - 1892 - 414 páginas
...industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue, and to be an interpreter and relaterof the best and sagest things among mine own citizens,...what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over... | |
| John Milton - 1892 - 442 páginas
...industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue, and to be an interpreter and relaterof the best and sagest things among mine own citizens, throughout this island, in the mother dialect;—that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Home, modern Italy, and those Hebrews... | |
| John Lancaster Spalding - 1894 - 244 páginas
...VI. CULTURE AND RELIGION 173 VII. PATRIOTISM 220 THINGS OF THE MIND. CHAPTER I. VIEWS OF EDUCATION. To be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens. — MILTON. WHETHER it be beautiful scenery, or noble monuments, or venerable ruins, or painting, or... | |
| John Milton - 1897 - 302 páginas
...and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities to that end — that were a toilsome vanity — but to be...and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout the island in the mother dialect. . . . "... Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in... | |
| John Milton - 1897 - 296 páginas
...times, as they should not willingly let it die. ... I applied myself to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities to that end — -that were a toilsome vanity — but to be an interpreter and relater of the best and... | |
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