 | 1783 - 524 стор.
...delighted the world. When the bookfeller offered Milton 5!. for his Paradife Loft, he did not rejedl it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1801 - 284 стор.
...world. When " the bookfeller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradife Loft, " he did.not rcje"5l it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did " he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he " knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 стор.
...those who deserve it scorn " all meaner views. I speak not of the scribblers for bread, who teaze " the press with their wretched productions. Fourteen...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; he knew " that the real price of bis work was immortality, and that posterity " would pay it."... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 738 стор.
...of a letter press. When the bookseller offered Milton fite pound for his Paradise Lost, he did cot reject it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor...the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; ne knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 стор.
...for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost,...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'... | |
 | 1819 - 596 стор.
...for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost,...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 стор.
...pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not leject it, and commit his poem to the flames ; nor did be accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he knew, that the real price of his work 's.-ai immortality, and that posterity would pay it." ARTHUR LORD CAPEL. 105. LORD CLARENDON said of... | |
 | 1836 - 602 стор.
...fourteen years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f... | |
 | 1836 - 600 стор.
...fourteen years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours : he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f... | |
 | 1836 - 602 стор.
...fourteen years is too long a period for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work "was immortality, and that posterity would pay it/f... | |
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... for their perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. . . . When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his ' Paradise Lost,' he did not reject it and commit his poem to the flames,... 
