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" When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his 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 labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality,... "
The rhapsodist; or, Mes souvenirs, an epistle [in verse]. - Page 83
by Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 99 pages
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The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany, Volume 1

1783 - 524 pages
...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 accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality,...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England,: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - 1794 - 700 pages
...and delignted the " 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 accept the miferable pittance as the reward " of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was im"...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Book 2

William Blackstone - 1794 - 676 pages
...and delighted the " world. When the bookfeller offered Milton five pounds for his " Paradife 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...
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Notes to Blackstone's Commentaries: Which are Calculated to Answer ..., Volume 5

Edward Christian - 1801 - 284 pages
...world. When " the bookfeller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradife Loft, " he did.not rcje"5l it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor did " he accept the miferable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he " knew that the real price of his work was immortality,...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 2

William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 pages
...Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. " When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, " he did not reject...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; he knew " that the real price of bis work was immortality, and that posterity " would pay it."...
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The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to ..., Volume 17

Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 738 pages
...of a letter press. When the bookseller offered Milton fite pound for his Paradise Lost, he did cot reject it, and commit his poem to the flames, nor...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...
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The Pamphleteer

Abraham John Valpy - 1813 - 600 pages
...Newton,' Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When me bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it,...and commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept this miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; 1 Milton's 1'roscWockl, 4to. ••»>• ip 17*....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...Newton, Milton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the booksellers offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'...
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The Flowers of Wit, Volumes 1-2

Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 pages
...pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not leject it, and commit his poem to the flames ; nor did be accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he knew, that the real price of his work 's.-ai immortality, and that posterity would pay it." ARTHUR LORD CAPEL. 105. LORD CLARENDON said of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

1836 - 602 pages
...that Bacon, Newton, Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it,...accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f...
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