| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...ILttetarg SLoncjinjjs anti 9spitatt'0ng. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will... | |
| James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...mterarg 3L0ngm<js anti ^tept'ratt'ons. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will... | |
| Arthur Cleveland Coxe - Books and reading - 1859 - 60 pages
...failure, for he acknowledges himself " not disposed to this manner of writing," and adds, " wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." In other words, in his Puritanism he did violence to his genius, and made a left-hand marriage, the... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...confessed — that he was not naturally disposed to " this manner of writing ;" " wherein," ho adds, " knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...power of nature to another task, I have the use, as 1 may account it, but of my left hand." * With all l,is quick susceptibility for whatever was beautiful... | |
| John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...cannot have much. * He was in his 33rd year. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...confessed — that he was not naturally disposed to "this manner of writing;" "wherein," he adds, " knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...power of nature to another task, I have the use, as 1 may account it, but of my left hand." * With all his quick susceptibility for whatever was beautiful... | |
| George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...confessed — that he was not naturally disposed to " this manner of writing ;" " wherein," ho adds, " knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have tho use, as 1 may account it, but of my left hand." * With all his quick susceptibility for whatever... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...controversy, Milton's modesty led him to say, "I was not disposed to this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand."* But posterity has reversed his * Introduction to second volume of "Beasons of Church Government." verdict,... | |
| 1866 - 490 pages
...himself confessed — that he was not naturally ' disposed to this manner of writing ; wherein, he adds, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.' With all his quick susceptibility for whatever was beautiful and bright, Milton seems to have needed... | |
| 1882 - 972 pages
...the field of controversy, for he owns that he was not disposed to this manner of writing " wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." It is a fact that Milton was thus drawn into the controversy, and what more natural... | |
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