 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...not feek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted MILTON. 223 courted nor received fupport; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...predeceffbrs, but he did not feek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received fupport ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance,. and in blindnefs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...predeceflbrs, but he did not feck them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received fupport; there is in his Writings nothing by which the pride...gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...predeceflbrs, but he did not fcek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor wceived fupport; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...gratified, or favour gained > no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnefs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...contemporaries he neither courted nor received fupport; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride; pf other authors might be gratified, or favour gained; no exchange of praife, nor folicitation of fupport;. His great works were performed under difcountenance, and in blindnels;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...predeceflbrs, but he did not feek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received fupport ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favours gained ; no exchange of praife, nor felicitation of fupport. His great works were performed... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...predeceflbrs, but he did pot feek them. From, his contemporaries he neither courted nor received fupport; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favours gamed; no exchange of praife, nor folicitation of fupport. His great works were performed under... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained : no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.' Jo'inson's Worts, vii. 142. See/w/, Feb. 1766, for Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...disdainful of help or hindrance. From his contemporaries he neither couited nor received support ; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride...might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.' Jo'inson's Works, vii. 142. See /»<«/, Feb. 1766, for Johnson's... | |
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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, nor solicitation of support. 
