 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...mine own eitizens throughout this island in the mother dialeet : that what the greatest and ehoieest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their eountry, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...throughout this island in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Koine, and modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country, I, in proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine, not caring to be once... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 518 pages
...citizens throughout this island, in the mother-dialect : that what the greatest and choicest witsf of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...their country, I, in my proportion, with this over of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad — though perhaps I could... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...poem, and a poem of the higher order, in which " what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Home, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country," he " in his proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian," might do for his. As to the... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...always remarked in him, he speaks of his plans and the divine consecration of his genius. " That which the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or Modern Italy, and these Hebrews of old, did for their country, I, in my proportion with this, over and above of being... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...the hero. It is probable that Milton, having abandoned the design of doing for our early history, ' ' what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens. Rome, or modern Italy did for their country," resolved to utilize his studies into our early legends, by writing them in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...native tongue — or, as he goes on to say, " to be an interpreter and relatcr of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens, throughout this island,...not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps 1 could attain to that, but content with these British islands as my world ; " and he again, more distinctly... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...of the best and sagest things among my own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect; that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens,...for their country, I, in my proportion, with this advantage of being a Christian, might do for mine." The literature of that age stood greatly in need... | |
 | Roger Ascham - Archery - 1868 - 372 pages
...among mine own Citizens throughout this Hand in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine : not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 196 pages
...mine own Citizens throughout this Hand in the mother dialect. That what th;: greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine : not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attaine to that, but content... | |
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Vanity, but to be an Interpreter and Relater of the best and sagest things, among mine own Citizens throughout this Island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest Wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did... 
