 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 sivua
...other authors might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance,...author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later edition of his -poem, by an unknown writer, and therefore of difputable aurhority; and fome account... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 sivua
...authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praife, nor folicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance,...of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firft. i.:; f ' BUTLER. OF the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later edition of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 sivua
...authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties raniftied at his touch; he was born for whatever b irduous; and his work is not the greateft of herokk... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 sivua
...nor folicitation of fupport;. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnels; but difficulties vanifhed at his touch ; he was born...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 is a life prefixed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 sivua
...authors might be gratified, or favours gained ; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance,...of heroick poems, only becaufe it is not the firft. 3 BUTLER. BUTLER. o F the great author of Hudibras there is a life prefixed to the later edition of... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sivua
...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. IN PARADISUM AMISSAM SUMMI POET^E JOANNIS... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 sivua
...•*' 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 sivua
...other authors might be gratified, or favours gamed; no exchange of praife, nor folicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance,...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 have of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 sivua
...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... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1804 - 398 sivua
...exchange of praife, no felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountcnance, and in blindnefs, but difficulties vanifhed at his...whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greateft of heroic poems, only becaufe it is not the firfl," Mr. Hayley, his latter biographer, thus delineates... | |
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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,... 
