 Locke, instructed and delighted the world. 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 labours : he knew...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4491836Full view - About this book
 | American Medical Association - 1856 - 926 pages
...Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." Above all, that the medical profession whose very mission is involved in the universal search,... | |
 | 1774 - 760 pages
...commit his poem to the (lames : nor did he accept the miferable pittance as the reward qf his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that poflerity would pay it. Some authors are as c.iivk h about profit as others ^re rapacious of it ; May... | |
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