 Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.  Literary Essays - Page 85by James Russell Lowell - 1890Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Education - 1895 - 120 pages
...of." But on this head Milton is his own critic, when he says : " If I were wise only to my own ends I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...task, I have the use as I may account but of my left hand."1 And yet Milton's greatness as a prose writer is hardly sufficiently recognized. The subject-matter... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...there _shall be no chiding. [From The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty, 1641.1 LASTLY, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...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 be such a folly as... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...there shall be no chiding. [From The Reason of Church Government urged against Pre/aty, 1641.] LASTLY, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...'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 be such a folly as... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 252 pages
...there shall be no chiding. [From The Reason of Church Government urged against Prelaty, 1641.] LASTLY, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...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 be such a folly as... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1897 - 592 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...to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." 1 With all his quick susceptibility for whatever was beautiful and bright,... | |
 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - English literature - 1897 - 282 pages
...his own confession, he was 'not naturally disposed to this manner of writing, wherein,' he adds, ' knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may ' account it, but of my left hand.' This ' left-handedness ' shows itself in Milton's style in a lack of fluency... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1898 - 234 pages
...felt himself comparatively inefficient and maimed. 'If I were wise only to mine own ends,' he wrote, ' I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand1.' It was not natural for him to write in 'the pedestrian manner.' Of him Quintilian's words of... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 346 pages
...to the good speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...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 be such a folly, as... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 350 pages
...to the good speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein...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 be such a folly, as... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...inferior to their prelatical opponents in scholarship. He tells us himself that he " was not disposed to this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." In 1643, in his thirty-fifth year, Milton married Mary Powell, daughter of... | |
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