 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.  Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 31by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Morley - 1912 - 1214 pages
...with leisurely care upon such a subject as of itself might catch applause, and should not choose " ! fg ܞ Vs 4 B 6 D UE} ӳ D o " F ^ EN ] ... mB? QLא l] n ZjM r [N 9 ń*zP_ " Vz 5e^ r Bb\ Many a man of genial temper and predominating gentleness of life has gone as a soldier into battle,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 392 pages
...an art, an end and not a means. Of his political work he has himself told us, " I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Mr. Masson has given an excellent analysis of these writings, selecting with great judgment the salient... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 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." 156. Marriage. — In 1643, in his thirty-fifth year, Milton married Mary... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...1641 T ASTLY, I should not chuse this manner of writing, wherin knowing my self inferior to my self, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet since 5... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...ASTLY, I should not chuse this manner of writing, •^ wherin knowing my self inferior to my self, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet since 5... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...though he hardly had a subject admitting of the display of his greatest art. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...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... | |
 | Charles J. Little - Methodism - 1912 - 332 pages
...poetry? Who knew this better than Milton? Who declared in the very last moment of self-immolation : " This manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." Many in these later centuries have sympathized with Milton in his blindness; all the more because he... | |
 | Charles J. Little - Methodism - 1912 - 334 pages
...poetry? Who knew this better than Milton? Who declared in the very last moment of self-immolation : " This manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...power of nature to another task, I have the use, as 1 may account, but of my left hand." Many in these later centuries have sympathized with Milton in... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 pages
...speeding, that if solidity have leisure to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior...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... | |
 | Alden Sampson - 1913 - 336 pages
...disposed to this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial powers of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." IX SUCH, then, were the circumstances of his life,— living in London, teaching... | |
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