 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 139 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894
...10 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 heroick poems, only because it is not the first. NOTES. p. 1, 1. 1, already written. Eg,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895
...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. L'ALLEGRO. John Milton. HENCE, loathed Melancholy,... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 344 páginas
...follows : " His great works were performed under discountenance and 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." A Plea for WHY is it that pedants are generally... | |
 | William Mathews - 1896 - 344 páginas
...: " His great work'8 were performed under discountenance and 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." A Plea for WHY is it that pedants are generally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1897
...' 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 heroick poems only because it is not the first.' Works, v. 271 ; vii. 142. ' She died three... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905
...207. ' For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense.' Ib. p. 155. BUTLER1 OF the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the 1 later editions of his poem by an unknown writer 2, and therefore of disputable authority ; and some... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887
..." 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." In our own day, we have seen another instance... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 351 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. THE FUNCTIONS or THE Cnonus IN THE GBEEK... | |
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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,... 
