 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 páginas
...fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties vanifhed at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greateft of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firft. BUTLER/ OF the great author of Hudibras... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 páginas
...fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties vanifhcd at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greateft of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firfl. BUTLER. BUTLER. F the great author of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 páginas
...fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties vanifhed at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greateft of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firft. BUTLER. OF the great author of Hudibras... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 páginas
...fupport;. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnels; but difficulties vanifhed at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greateft of heroick only becaufe it is not the firft. BUTLER. OF the great author of Hudibras there... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 páginas
...fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties vanifhed at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greateft of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firft. 3 BUTLER. BUTLER. o F the great author... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch : he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 páginas
...•*' great works were performed under dif" countenance, and in blindnels, but dif'* ficulties vanimed at his touch ; he was " born for whatever is arduous ; and his <4 work is not the greateft of heroic poems, *' only becaufe it is not the firft 64." AFTER Milton,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 páginas
...fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs; but difficulties vanifhed at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greateft of heroic poems, only becaufe it is not the firft." C 6 BUTLER. BUTLER. ' only accounts we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but " fitficulties vanished at his touch; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his itoik is not the greatest of hcroick poems, only because it is not the first. BUTLER. OF the great... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...support. His great works were performed under discountenance, ^nd in blindness, but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous; and his work is not the greatest of hcroick poems, only because it is not the first BUTLER. OF the great author of Hudihras there is a... | |
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... images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained, no exchange of praise,... 
