 | David Masson - English literature - 1881 - 878 pages
...private academies of Italy," he says, " whither " I was favoured to resort, . . . some trifles which 1 had in " memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout,...things, which I had shifted, in " scarcity of books and conveniences, to patch up amongst " them, were received with written encomiums, which the " Italian... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1884 - 304 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 amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1884 - 988 pages
...the private academies of Italy, whither I was favored to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout...with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other tiiings which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences, to patch up amongst them, were received... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1886 - 378 pages
...favored to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had composed at twenty, or thereabout, . . . met with acceptance above what was looked for ; and...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 not... | |
 | John Milton - 1887 - 180 pages
...but in London, and spending his leisure in the education of his nephews and certain other pupils. \* composed at under twenty or thereabout, (for the manner...every one must give some proof of his wit and reading j.,l there,) met with acceptance above what was looked for; and, ' '' other things which I had shifted... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 468 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 amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not... | |
 | John Milton - English prose literature - 1889 - 464 pages
...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...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 - 1890 - 666 pages
...published in 1641, "that some trifles which I had in memory, com" posed at under twenty or thereabout, met with acceptance above " what was looked for, and...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Poets, English - 1890 - 266 pages
...consisted, he says, of " some trifles which I had in memory composed at under twenty or thereabout; and other things which I had shifted, in scarcity of books and conveniences, to patch up among them." The former class of compositions may no doubt be partly identified... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1892 - 198 pages
...private academies2 of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles 3 which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout,...with acceptance above what was looked for ; and other things4, which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up among them, were received... | |
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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... 
