...their young admirers ? Page 196, line 1. study, (which I take to be my portion iu this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.—MILTON. Nor can his Wish be unfulfilled. Calumniated in his life-time and writing what few would...

...intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. (P. 54) Thus inspired, Milton extended the range of his activities spectacularly. For the first time...

...REASON OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT (1641) ... in the priuate academies of Italy... I began... to assent. .. to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me,...nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to 5 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possest me, and these...

...detail.12 First, Milton's statement of one facet of his purpose was that "by labour and intent study . . . joyn'd with the strong propensity of nature, I might...to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die."13 He realized that relatively little could be left of overpowering worth even during the inspiratory...

...grows daily upon me, that by labor and intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die?" The influence of universities upon historical...

...that had the overlooking, or betak'n to of mine own choise in English, or other tongue, prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter, the stile by certain...thoughts at once possest me, and these other. That if I were certain to write as men buy Leases, for three lives and downward, there ought no regard be sooner...

...daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps...aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.'" Although the Hammersmith and Horton days had seen him confident of poetical ability, the Italian experience...

...long life. He wrote, however, in one of his prose works: (302) "[I hope] that by labour and. ..study. ..I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die." From John Suckling (born 1609), we have a statement on the enduring life not of his poems but of the...

..."led by the genial power of nature" to a higher, poetic task (CP 1: 808). He announces audaciously, "I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die" (CPr. 810). By placing the digression at the start of Book 2, Milton can write about himself in greater...

...vols., eds. Douglas Bush et al. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), 1.81o, on the desire to 'leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die'. 48 For other comments on posterity, see MYu.y'1, Supplement, pp. 163, 177, LY rv.315; on Wordsworth's...