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" I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 119
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end, that were a toilsome vanity, but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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The Friend, Volume 1

Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Oembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue; not to make verbal curiosities the end, that were a toilsome vanity, but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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The Prose Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end, (that were a toilsome vanity,) but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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Poetical Works: Biography of Milton

John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end (that were a toilsome vanity), but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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Select Prose Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end, (that were a toilsome vanity,) but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit ..., Volume 2

François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; that, what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...myself to the resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to 6x all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end — (that were a toilsome vanity) — but to be an interpreter, and relater of...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of ВешЬо, to fix all the industry the sisters had untwin'd His vital thread, and ended with their knife The fle curiosities the end, that were a toilsome vanity ; but to be an interpreter, and relater of the best...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...to that resolution which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end, (that were a toilsome vanity,) but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue ; not to make verbal curiosities the end, (that were a toilsome vanity,) but to be an interpreter and relater of the best...
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