 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 702 pages
...Italy, whither I was favoured to refort, perceiving that fome trifles " which I had in memory, compofed at under twenty or thereabout " (for the manner is, that every one muft give a proof of his wit and " reading there) met with acceptance above what was looked for, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 608 pages
...in memory, compofed at under twenty or " thereabouts (for the manner is, that every one mult give a proof *' of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance...what " was looked for, and other things which I had ihifted in fcarcity " of books and conveniences to patch up among them, were re" ceived with written... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...manner is, as he says himself in the Preface to his second book of the Reason of Church Government, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading there, and his productions were received with written encomiums which the Italian is not forward to bestow... | |
 | William Godwin - Children - 1797 - 514 pages
...Italy t whither I was favour'd to refort, perceiving that fome Trifles which I had in memory, compos'd at under twenty or thereabout (for the manner is, that every one muft give fome proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance above what was lookt for, and... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 378 pages
...licet. Grotii £pift. 964. " twenty, or thereabout (for the manner is, " that every one tnuft give fome proof of his " wit and reading there) met with acceptance...what was looked for , and other things, " which I had fliifted, in fcarcity of books and " conveniency, to patch up amongft them, were " received with written... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabouts (for the manner is that every one must give some proof...things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...in memory, compofedat under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that every one muft give fome proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance...what was looked for ; and other things, which I had fhifted in fcarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongft them, were received with written... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...in memory, compofedat under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that every one muft give tbme proof of his wit and reading there) met with acceptance...what was looked for ; and other things, which I had fhifted in fcarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongft them, were received with written... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout,...things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences; to patch up among them — were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout,...things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conve-- niences, to patch up among them — were received with written encomiums, which the Italian... | |
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But much latelier in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner is, that every one must give some proof of his wit and reading... 
