 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 it, but of my left hand...  A Manual of English Prose Literature.. - Side 306af William Minto - 1881 - 548 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 sider
...sacrifice he could make to his cause. "I should not," he says, "choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." The change was painful as a mutilation to this incomparable artist in verse.... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 sider
...sacrifice he could make to his cause. "I should not," he says, " choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand." The change was painful as a mutilation to this incomparable artist in verse.... | |
 | Christian Edzard Kreipe - 1926 - 92 sider
...nächsten Seite lesen wir die bekannte Stelle: "/ should not choose this manner of writing, wherein kowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the wse, as I may account, but of my left hand." Dasselbe in anderen Worten sagt PW II, 481 : "with what... | |
 | John Milton - 1927 - 208 sider
...should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by thlfgenial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of mjJeftJianjL And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose, yet, since it will... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 sider
...to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. . . . For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 408 sider
...to do her office, art cannot have much. Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein, knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand. . . . For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter - 1979 - 216 sider
...with only two in the more passionate one. But his natural bent was toward the poetic : in prose he had "the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand" (ibid.). One general principle seems to run through most of his critical evaluations: that literary... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 sider
...are, unfortunately, necessary. "I should not," he goes on, "choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial...the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand." At this point, while admitting that "I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose," he cannot... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 sider
...Perdition. (CP I, 616-617) The champion is in the field. Although, as he will soon assess his strength, "I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand" (CP I, 808) — a figure drawn from wrestling or fencing? — the left is indisputably in the right.... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - 468 sider
...much. Lastly, 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 1 may account it, but of my left hand. And though I shall be foolish in saying more to this purpose,... | |
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