 | 1783 - 524 Seiten
...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...the real price of his work was immortality, and that polterity would pay iti* Had we the pen of Milton, we would nobly thank Lord Camden for thefe generous... | |
 | 1783 - 424 Seiten
...it, and commit hisi poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of bis labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that pofterity would pay it!* Had we the pen of Mihqn, we would nobly thank Lord Camden for thefe generous and jiift ientiments o£... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 700 Seiten
..." world. When the bookfeller oftercd Milton five pounds for his " Paradife Loft, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the " flames, nor did he...labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was im" mortality, and tiiat pollerity would pay it." (;) Where an author transfers all his right or intereltin... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1794 - 676 Seiten
...Loft, he did not reject, it, and commit his poem to the " flames, nor did he accept the niiferable pittance as the reward «« of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was im" mortality, and that pofterity would pay it." (;) Where an author transfers all his right or intereftin... | |
 | Edward Christian - 1807 - 100 Seiten
...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 " labour; he knew that...real price of his work was " immortality, and that posterity would pay it." The •booksellers or purchasers of copy-right, upon the present occasion,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1813 - 600 Seiten
...miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; 1 Milton's 1'roscWockl, 4to. ••»>• ip 17*. be knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." In this eloquent declamation, with great deference to my Lord Camden, I am... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 738 Seiten
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept 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 are as carele-j about profit as others are rapacious of it; and... | |
 | Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 Seiten
...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 labour ; he knew that...the real price of his work was IMMORTALITY, and that posterity would pay the debt!" Mr. SCOTT generally strikes by a certain aggravation of the features... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 716 Seiten
...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 labour; he knew that...the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless about profit as others are rapacious of it ; and... | |
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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 labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. 
