 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 páginas
...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 poems, only because it is not the first.15 BASSELAS. CHAP. I.— DESCRIPTION OF... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 páginas
...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 poems, only because it is not the first. MIND. (Diversity of) THERE seem to be some... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...The style of " The Lives of the Poets " is not that of The Rambler. This is one of the Lives. SAMUEL re ; there are Myriads of Islands behind those which thou ' here discoveres later editions of his poem by an unknown writer, and therefore of disputable authority ; and some account... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...regions, really are, into which death will turn the spirit free. JOHN FOSTER : Journal. He [Milton] was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first. DR. S. JOHNSON. Before the greatness displayed... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...regions, really are, into which death will turn the spirit free. JOHN FOSTER : Journal. He [Milton] pected, without being truly respectable. MADISON. greatest of heroic poems only because it is not the first. DR. S. JOHNSON. Before the greatness displayed... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 páginas
...Englishmen. " 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 poems, only because it is not the first." [There is great variety of choice in selecting... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 páginas
...Englishmen. "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 poems, only because it is not the first." [There is great variety of choice in selecting... | |
 | George Briggs Starkweather - 1883 - 318 páginas
.... . His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness; but difficulties vanish at his touch : he was born for whatever is arduous, and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first." I look in vain for Milton's superior in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...* 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 poems only because it is not the first. ALEXANDER POPE.—Dryden knew more of man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 páginas
...His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness, but difficulties van30 ished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of herpick poems, only because it is not the first., NOTES. P. i, 1. 4. Mr. Teuton's elegant... | |
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... 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, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance,... 
