 | John Milton - 1916 - 224 pages
...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,...over and above, of being a Christian, might do for mine1; not caring to be once named 1 PW II. 478. Reference has been made so frequently to this pamphlet... | |
 | Sten Bodvar Liljegren - Biography & Autobiography - 1918 - 220 pages
...of the best and sagest thing; among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dia lect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens,...modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their countr I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a Christian might do for mine; not caring... | |
 | 1918 - 426 pages
...Weltliteratur zu konstruieren, indem er hofft "that what (he greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Borne, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine". Ja, bei der erwälmung der tugend... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English literature - 1920 - 356 pages
...predestination of his genius to poetry and that great hope he had indulged on returning from Italy: "that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens,...and above of being a Christian, might do for mine." Now the end had come; blind and in hiding, in those months of unloosed revenge, none, the Regicides... | |
 | Henry Davey - Music - 1921 - 542 pages
...upon cathedral services. Even Milton, proclaiming to the world in 1641 that he one day hoped to do what 'the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those old Hebrews' had done, yet thought it impossible until 'the land had once freed herself from the impertinent... | |
 | Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1924 - 366 pages
...greatest and choicest Mn Apology for Poetry, in Eliz. Crit. Essays 1.160-161. 'Education, Works 4.381. wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine.1 To the accomplishment of this undertaking no one of Milton's writings was unrelated. The prose... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - English literature - 1924 - 252 pages
...Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country, l in my proportibn, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine; not caring to be once nam'd abroad.' Der Dichter ist ihm Lehrer moralischer Grösse, ein „Prophet inspiriert von Gott".... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - English literature - 1924 - 254 pages
...in The Reason of Church Government (1641, bei Spingarn p. 195). That what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old, did for their country, l in my proportion, with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine; not caring to... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...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,...Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once nam'd abroad, though perhaps I could attain to that, but content with these British Islands as my World,... | |
 | English philology - 1918 - 396 pages
...Weltliteratur zu konstruieren, indem er hofft "that wJiat the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Borne, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, tcith this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine". Ja, bei der erwähnung der tugend... | |
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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... 
