 | John Milton - 1750 - 666 pàgines
...compofure of this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaclion, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much. Mr.... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 674 pàgines
...compofure of this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himself, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaclion, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much. Mr.... | |
 | 1824 - 564 pàgines
...by Winter " a prisoner in the yet undawning east." * Philips relates of Milton, from his own mouth, that " his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal :" — Richardson says that his " poetical faculty would on a sudden rush upon him with an impetus... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pàgines
...came on, not been fhewn any tor a confiderable while, and defiring the reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that whatever he -attempted at other times, was never to his fatisfaftion, though he courted his fancy never... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 608 pàgines
...compofure of this poem, which he Cays he had reafon to remember, as it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfafh'on, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much. Mr.... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pàgines
...compofure of. this poem, which he fays he had reafon to remember, 35 it was told him by Milton himfelf, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal, and that what he attempted at other times was not to his fatisfaction, tho' he courted his fancy never fo much. Mr.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pàgines
...on, not been fhewed any for a " confiderable while; and defiring the '' reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his "vein never happily flowed but from " the Autumnal Equinox to the Vernal; *< and that whatever he attempted at " other times was never to his fatisfac" tion, though he courted his fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 292 pàgines
...twenty, or thirty verfes at a " time (which, being written by what" ever hand came next, might poffibly " want correction as to the orthography " and pointing), having, as the Summer " came on, not been fhewed any for a '* confiderable while; and defiring the " reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pàgines
...or thirty verfes at a " time (whichr being written by what" ever hand came next, might poffibly <' want correction as to the orthography '' and pointing), having, as the Summer " came on, not been fliewed any for a "confidence while; and defiring the " reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his •"... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pàgines
...read Milton's life will recollect the circumftance which is related by his nephew Philips, that bis vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal. This dependence of the foul upon the feafons is very juftly ridiculed by his prefent hiftcrian ; and... | |
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... that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal; and that whatever he attempted at other times was never to his satisfaction, though he courted his fancy never so much; so that, in all the years he was about this poem,... 
