 | Mark Pattison - Poets, English - 1880 - 240 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation, from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." In 1638, at the age of nine and twenty, Milton has already determined that this lifework shall be a... | |
 | John Milton - 1880 - 654 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost ' I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard ' so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." There is evidence that, about the time when Milton thus announced to the public his design of some... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.' It is material to a right judgment on Paradise Lost to come to the study of it with this knowledge... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation, from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." Tn 1638, at the age of nine and twenty, Milton has already determined that this life-work shall be... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...expectation from as many as are not loath tc« hazard BO much credulity upon the b.-st pledges tli.it I can give them. Although it nothing content me to have disclosed thus much b 'forehand, but that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 390 pages
...which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." There is evidence that, about the time when Milton thus announced to the public his design of some... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.' It is material to a right judgment on Paradise Lost to come to the study of it with this knowledge... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 424 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." The passages I have quoted are not only fine prose, but they reveal to us the inner life of the poet,... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them." The passages I have quoted are not only fine prose, but they reveal to us the inner life of the poet,... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation, from as many as are not loth to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges I can give them." In 1638, at the afje of nine and twenty Milton has already determined that this lifework... | |
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... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs; till which in some measure be compassed, at mine own peril and cost I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as ' are not loth to hazard so much credulity... 
