 ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should...  Poetical Works: Biography of Milton - Page 95by John Milton - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Anthony David Nuttall, Professor of English and Fellow A D Nuttall - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 256 pages
...speaks of the great Italian academies and then of the inward prompting to undertake a great work, that "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" — all this seen as tending to the "honour" of his country.86 Pattison is pretty consistently clear... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 412 pages
...about him," where, in response to the "inward prompting" of thoughts that have long "possest" him, he "might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (810). It is from those exalted "intentions" that he has been "pluckt" by the "abortive and foredated... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...prompting": besides expressing his national literary aspirations, it expresses his Renaissance ambition to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (YP 1:810): it highlights his sense of the Bible as poetic (with its "frequent songs"): and it articulates... | |
 | Anna K. Nardo - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 292 pages
...labor of his daughters to fulfill the promise he made in The Reason of Church Government (1642) to "leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (RCG, 668). But what of the laboring girls? Romney has also tried to capture their experience of this... | |
 | Leonora Leet - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 542 pages
...vessel for the transpersonal. Thus it was Milton's lifelong determination "that by labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life)...to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die."51 Literature at its highest, and Milton's Paradise Lost is surely the most sublime "work" in... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (810). The prophetic quality of Milton's remarks has been demonstrated in the centuries intervening... | |
 | Jason Lawrence - History - 2005 - 244 pages
...lesse to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study . . . joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.19 Milton envisages this great work as a vernacular epic poem, and he considers it specifically... | |
 | 100 pages
...to the point of heresy, and came into conflict with the official Puritan stand. "By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life),...after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." (from The Reason of Church Government, 1641) Milton died from 'gout struck in' on November 8, 1674... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 250 pages
...quoted at length from "Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty" Milton's early hope that he "might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die." Melville marked the whole of Milton's magnificent passage, perhaps the greatest statement of literary... | |
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