 When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames ; nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality,...  London Society - Сторінка 182редактори - 1874Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 стор.
...Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit...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 - 1184 стор.
...perishable trash. It was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames—nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real... | |
 | 1846 - 602 стор.
...the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it and commit bis poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labors ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 стор.
...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...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."... | |
 | 1846 - 610 стор.
...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...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labors ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 стор.
...Milton five pounds for his PARADISE LOST, he ( ' \ rv " did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the flames, nor did he 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.... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1847 - 490 стор.
...dirty bookseller for so much a sheet of a letter press. When the bookseller offered Milton five pound for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his abor ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1849 - 528 стор.
...Milton, and Locke, instructed nnd delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poems to the flames ; nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1849 - 538 стор.
...Milton, and 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 poems to the flames; nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 стор.
...offered Milton five pounds for his PARADISE LOST, he did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the flames, nor did he 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.... | |
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