 | John Milton - 1890 - 666 pages
...but broke out more and more into expressions " of uneasiness ; so that at length they were all (even the eldest also) " sent out to learn some curious...women to learn, particularly embroideries in " gold and silver." If this first sending out of the daughters to learn some ways of earning their own living... | |
 | John Milton - 1890 - 566 pages
...been a really judicious arrangement of their stepmother, been sent out, at their father's expense, "to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture...women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold and silver." From that time, therefore, Milton and his wife Elizabeth had been by themselves in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...but broke out more and more into expressions of uneasiness ; 30 so that at length they were all, even the eldest also, sent out to learn some curious and...learn ; particularly embroideries in gold or silver." the daughters or the father are most to be lamented. A language not understood can never be so read... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...but broke out more and more 30 into expressions of uneasiness ; so that at length they were all, even the eldest also, sent out to learn some curious and...silver." In the scene of misery which this mode of intellec5 tual labour sets before our eyes, it is hard to determine whether the daughters or the father... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
...with the daughters of Milton and Mary Powell. She wisely persuaded Milton to have all three " sent to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture...learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver." The maidservant who gave evidence about Milton's will .tells us that when the second daughter, Mary,... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 208 pages
...three daughters no longer tried to live with their father, but went out, at their father's expense, " to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture...women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold and silver." Milton's literary work from 1652 to 1664 was important and interesting. There were fourteen... | |
 | 1906 - 856 pages
...but broke out more and more into expressions of uneasiness ; so that at length they were all, even the eldest also, sent out to learn some curious and...the scene of misery which this mode of intellectual labor sets before our eyes, it is hard to determine whether the daughters or tit father are most to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...but broke out more 15 and more into expressions of uneasiness; so that at length they were all, even the eldest also, sent out to learn some curious and...learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver.' 20 In the scene of misery which this mode of intellectual labour sets before our eyes, it is hard to... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 524 pages
...the servitude of reading books in various languages to their father without knowing the meaning. " in the scene of misery which this mode of intellectual labour sets before our eyes," says Johnson, " it is hard to determine whether the daughters or the father are most to be lamented."... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 408 pages
...been a really judicious arrangement of their stepmother, been sent out, at their father's expense, ' ' to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture...women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold and silver." From that time, therefore, Milton and his wife Elizabeth had been by themselves in the... | |
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... to learn some curious and ingenious sorts of manufacture, that are proper for women to learn, particularly embroideries in gold or silver. 
