 Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident,...  The Metropolitan - Página 391831Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 páginas
...current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." the warmest zealots of The Revolution Society itself, allows, that " Johnson has spoken in the highest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 páginas
...3 Johnson wrote of Milton: — 'I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality and Deference for the general opinion. [A D. 1749. and unmoved as that column. And let it be remembered,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 páginas
...current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of The Revolution Society... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 páginas
...current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. — S. Johnson, Milton. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own ment con Indeed even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of the Revolution Society... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 páginas
...current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...consciousness, and waiting without impatience the 1 See Johnson's Worts, vii. 134, 212, and viii. 386. * Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 452) writes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 páginas
...current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his duties, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 páginas
...current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. In the mean time he continued his studies, and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...current, through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation." Indeed, even Dr. Towers, who may be considered as one of the warmest zealots of The Revolution Society... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 páginas
...current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own merit with...without impatience the vicissitudes of opinion and the impar- 5 tiality of a future generation. In the meantime he continued his studies, and supplied the... | |
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